Common infectious diseases of the digestive tract include viral hepatitis, bacillary dysentery, poliomyelitis (i.e., polio), typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, cholera, parathyroid cholera, amoebic dysentery, a variety of intestinal viral infections (such as coxsackie virus, echovirus, etc.), bacterial poisoning and a variety of intestinal parasitic diseases (such as roundworms, cestode worms, pinworms, gingerbread worms), and other