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Infectious Disease
Infectious Disease is a recurring research topic on Health Canon. This hub collects related explainers and protocols, newest first, each with evidence grades and practical decision frameworks.
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Environmental Health
Parasite Diagnostics Map: O&P, Antigen, PCR, and Serology
Match method to syndrome: microscopy O&P, stool antigen, multiplex PCR, and serology each answer different questions—with different false-negative windows.
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Environmental Health
Human Protozoa: Intestinal, Blood, and Tissue Compartments
Protozoa are not worms. Split them by gut, blood/vector, and tissue-cyst niches—Giardia and Crypto are not malaria are not Toxoplasma reactivation.
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Environmental Health
Ectoparasites and Parasite Terminology: On the Skin vs Inside
Ectoparasites live on the body surface; endoparasites live inside. Tick vectors are not the same as the pathogens they carry—and cleanses are not dermatology.
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Environmental Health
Travel Parasite Infections: Prevention Before Cleanse Culture
Malaria prophylaxis, food-water hygiene, and post-travel testing beat deworming theater.
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Environmental Health
Parasite Overdiagnosis: When Not to Empiric-Treat
Most bloating is not occult helminthiasis. Test when pretest probability is real.
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Environmental Health
Parasite Diagnosis: O&P, Antigen, PCR, and Serology
Method must match the organism. One routine O&P does not rule out Crypto or pinworm.
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Environmental Health
Antiparasitic Drug Classes: What Actually Treats What
Benzimidazoles, nitroimidazoles, ivermectin, praziquantel—organism first, drug second.
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Environmental Health
Human Parasites Guide: Global Burden, U.S. Spectrum, Diagnosis & Cleanses
Parasites are many diseases, not one cleanse target. Protozoa versus helminths, global STH burden versus U.S. shortlist, matched diagnostics and drugs, Toxoplasma pregnancy prevention, and why commercial cleanses fail.
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Environmental Health
Parasite Cleanse Myth vs Evidence-Based Medicine
Herbal multi-level marketing is not albendazole. Diagnosis first; prescription when infection is real.
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