Immune System
Do you enjoy gardening, own a cat, don’t wash your produce or eat raw meat? All of these lifestyle choices put you at risk for toxoplasmosis.
Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. Once infected, this parasite can live dormant in your body for the rest of your life.
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“Crabs,” or pubic lice, are parasites that can infest the pubic hair of your genital area. Usually spread through sexual contact, rarely spread via bed linens, towels or clothes. And never from a public toilet seat, as they don’t live long off the body nor do they have mobility on smooth surfaces.
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Giardia lamblia (intestinalis) is an infection caused by a non-visible intestinal parasite, commonly infecting many via drinking or recreational water. Giardiasis is this parasite’s causing illness or disease, and is spread through contaminated feces.
Various common modes for Giardia to find its way into your intestines are:
eating uncooked food
picked it up from surfaces
swallowing recreational [...]
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Pinworms are tiny white worms that enjoy dwelling in your rectum. While you sleep, the female pinworms crawl out and deposit her eggs on the skin around this vital excretion area. An intestinal infection of pinworms is not uncommon in children.
Your pinworm infection usually starts by inadvertently consuming their infective eggs from contaminated [...]
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Experiencing frothy, foamy yellow green vaginal discharge? You may have trich.
Trichomoniasis (trich) is a common curable sexually transmitted disease that affects both women and men, symptoms being more common in women than men.
Trichomoniasis is an infection caused by a single-celled protozoan parasite. The vagina being the most common site for this infection in women, [...]
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A parasite lives on or in another organism, where it obtains its nourishment. In some cases, some causing detrimental intestinal infections or infectious diseases to its human host.
In humans, there are three main disease causing parasite categories:
protozoa
helminths
ectoparasites
Protozoa are single-celled free-living or parasitic organism, with an ability to multiply in humans. This capacity not only contributes [...]
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