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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Coxiella!

Coxiella can cause a FUO but also, if given enough time, a chronic culture-negative endocarditis.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Yaws!

One of 3, and the most common of them all, skin infections that's almost syphilis. Not surprisingly they share quite a lot in common.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bejel!

Two of 3 skin infections that're almost syphilis. Bejel can be found primarily in warm arid regions.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Pinta!

Last of 3 skin infections that're almost syphilis. Pinta is the rarest, and the only one not technically Treponema pallidum. It gets its named from the "painted" skin lesions.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Dracunculiasis!

An increasingly rare helminthic infection of the lower extremities. Almost extinct thanks to global public health efforts...
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Fasciola!

The liver fluke! At least one of the more common liver flukes. Always wash your produce and clean your water (if not cleaned for you).
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bartonella quintana!

The lesser known Bartonella (behind Cat Scratch's henselae). Unfortunately making a comeback in some locales due to increasing homelessness.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bartonella bacilliformis!

The least known Bartonella. Endemic only to parts of South America, its reservoir remains unknown. At least to me. 😬
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Sleeping Sickness!

Caused by 1 species, but 2 subspecies which can be quite different in severity. Probably should at that... 🤔
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Visceral Leish!

Although widely distributed, most visceral leishmania is found in a few hot spots in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Chagas Disease!

Although chronic disease can lead to end organ damage in the heart and GI tracts, acute disease often manifests as a non-specific illness +/- a chagoma.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Malaria!

Always an ID favorite! I should probably list out all the species. Anyone care to do so? 😬
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Dengue!

Where there's malaria there's often dengue. Sometimes. It depends on the geography. Buzzword to remember: antibody dependent enhancement (ADE). The cause of severe dengue.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Yellow Fever!

It makes you yellow! Amongst other things. Most cases do not progress to hepatic failure, coagulopathy, and multisystem disease though.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Influenza!

Went back and forth on whether to make this a non-specific febrile illness vs a respiratory infection given cough is often not the star of the show. Anyways, also a zoonosis.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Trichinella!

Don't eat undercooked meat.

Also, maybe not a bad rule of thumb: fever + myalgias + facial edema = Trichinella?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Schistosoma!

An infrequent but not uncommon, given the total infection prevalence, complication of Schistosoma with some species. Eosinophils are a clue.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Schistosoma again!

Acute schistosomiasis, sometimes called Katayama Fever in endemic parts of Japan, can cause a non-specific febrile illness. Urticaria +/- eosinophilia can be clues.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Botulism!

Most people, appropriately, think inappropriately canned food, but it's also raw honey (if a baby), wounds (particularly w/ tar heroin), & don't forget pruno!
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Angiostrongylus!

Don't stick raw snails, crustaceans, or frogs into your mouth. Snail slime is problematic too.
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🚨Tomorrow! Kickstarter launches tomorrow!

Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives' Kickstarter goes live 9/30!Be one of the first to receive the new Infectious Disease card game. Early backers will receive a free Emerging Infections expansion pack!



Also, this Kickstarter will be EU (and UK) friendly. All games sent to Europe will be fulfilled from the UK reducing shipping costs and eliminating additional customs complications.

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bayliascaris!

Can't get enough parasitic brain worms? Here's another! More a problem for kids than adults who eventually figure out it's not good to stick things in their mouths.
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The Epipocalypse is here!

Learn infectious diseases while playing cards. Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives teaches symptoms, transmission, reservoirs, geography, & more for over 150+ different infections. Checkout the Kickstarter now. Early backers in the first 72 hours will get a free bonus pack of Emerging Infections cards!

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Still got more infections to go through. Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: HIV!

A possible cause of aseptic meningitis with acute infection. Especially when your CSF PCR panel is negative. 🧐
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Still got more infections to go through. Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: HSV!

HSV-1 usually causes encephalitis. HSV-2 usually causes meningitis. HSV-2 can recur earning it the eponym Mollaret's meningitis.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Nocardia!

One of my favs. Doesn't get enough love. The other group of organisms causing chronic CNS + pulmonary syndromes besides TB and fungi.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Cat Scratch!

Not just a cause of lymphadenitis, cat scratch disease can also to the brain and eyes in a small portion of cases.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Cat Capnocytophaga!

Although more commonly a source of septicemia in individuals with immune compromise, Capnocytophaga canimorsus can also cause meningitis as well.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Polio!

Thanks to vaccines, polio strains 2 & 3 have been eradicated globally. Only polio strain 1 remains. Just like smallpox and rinderpest. (Forgive the limited stick figure options)
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: HTLV-1!

There are 2 pathogenic Human T-Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV) viruses, 3 if you count the original name for HIV, but only 1 causes CNS disease.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Herpes B!

Spread only by old world macaques and, possibly, only by laboratory old world macaques? Also, fairly closed related to herpes.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Rabies!

The terrible zoonosis with lots of potential sources the risk of which depends largely on where you live.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Acanthamoeba!

More amoeba, more problems. Mostly of the CNS kind, but illness may be preceded by skin disease.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Leptospirosis!

Complements of rodent urine, lepto can cause a non-specific febrile illness sometimes complicated by a variety of organ failures for the unlucky few.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever!

Probably one of the most exotic infections to say. Thankfully pretty rare. One of the few hemorrhagic fevers transmitted by ticks.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Sandfly Fever!

One of the 3 infections transmitted by sand flies! The other 2 are Leishmania & Bartonella bacilliformis.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Hendra!

An emerging infection similar to Nipah, Hendra shares a reservoir with Flying Foxes but causes disease in horses rather than pigs.
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