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

Forms cysts in your liver and sometimes your lung

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Hepatitis E!

The viral hepatitis no one remembers. And the one that, while not usually severe, can make pregnant women very sick.

 

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

Now with a less intussusception-causing vaccine I hear.

 

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

The other common pooping virus. And the scourge of oysters.

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Clostridioides difficile!

Even old C diff was once Clostridium. Why they changed it, I can't say. Maybe they liked it better that way?

 

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

Two herpes simplex viruses (1 & 2). Different tropisms, but both can cause genital disease.

 

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

The most common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis. Which I always found to be a curious term.

 

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

The most common cause of gonococcal urethritis. 😝 And the one that can sometimes sneak outside the GU tract...

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Gonorrhea (again)!

This time it's in your joints. Killing ur dudes. May also cause a tenosynovitis as well.

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Gonorrhea (again)!

This time it's in your liver capsule. Elevating your transaminases.

 

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

The STI that's also a protazoan parasite!

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: More STIs. Mycoplasma genitalium!

Runner up to the runner up in causing urethritis! Also, like super drug resistant. 🫤

One of the few bugs the CDC recommends 2 drugs for.

 

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

The most common cause of a (painless) genital ulcer. But as we shall see, not the only one... 🧐

 

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

I feel like we've already done this one, but if not, HIV is an STI too. 😬 Also, I would rather have HIV than diabetes because it's so treatable. Crazy? Discuss.

 

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

Bacterial vaginosis. Not entirely clear it's an "infection" per se, probably more of a dysbiosis, but gets better with treatment including the partner.

 

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

Although not a STI in the traditional sense, sex-associated transmission is now a common cause of what was previously primarily a zoonosis. Infectious disease is crazy!

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Hepatitis B!

The chronic hepatitis virus that can be transmitted so many different ways...

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Hepatitis C!

Primary means of transmission is through blood (including injection drug use), but also potentially a STI.

 

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

It comes in many forms, but an ulceroglandular form is generally the most common.

 

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

Beware cat bites with their tiny little needle-like teeth! (And dogs too.)

 

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

Everyone stigmatizes that cat, but various under cooked meats are also a major risk.

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives:

Capnocytophaga canimorsus!Bonus fact not included in card: there are numerous Capnocytophaga species that are normal oral flora in all of us!

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bartonella henselae!

Back to cats. Beware their scratches. Especially if those doing the scratching are feral kittens.

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bartonella henselae again!

Cat scratch can also disseminate to the eyes and CNS. A potential cause of encephalitis.

 

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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bartonella henselae again again!

Cat scratch can also rarely cause culture-negative endocarditis. Beware the kitten!

 

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

One of the helminthic parasites you don't get through eating.

 

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

Thanks to sporulation, considered a potential agent of bioterror. Thanks to vaccination, the risk can be mitigated.

 

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Next draft Infection Cards for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Blastomycosis!

An endemic, dimorphic fungus that readily spreads to the skin, bones, joints, and GU tract.

GU tract not wanting to load... 🙁

 

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

Another dimorphic fungi, histo causes lung disease, can disseminate to the lymphatic system in the immune compromised and elderly, and may instigate acute pericarditis in some populations. Because the latter's an immune problem primarily, treatment is with anti-inflammatories.

 

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

The third and final endemic mycosis in the US. Unlike the other two, this one likes itself a good dry summer after a wet winter. While it can go to the skin, bones, and joints like many environmental fungi, cocci really likes to go to the CNS requiring life long treatment.

 

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

Time for some molds. Or is it mould? Aspergillus is the most commonly encountered. In immunocompetent folks, likes to form fungal balls.