Erin Alman-Updyke
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398 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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We're coming to you with a very rapid fire episode.
They will be different.
But first, it's quarantini time.
Non-branded, non-proprietary.
And I want everyone to know you probably don't actually need electrolytes in your life unless you are actually having profuse watery diarrhea or working out way more than most of us actually work out.
But you know, it's just quarantini time.
It's quarantini time.
So the disorder, the disease we're talking about today is known as cyclosporiasis.
It's caused by a parasite called Cyclospora chiatinensis.
I think I'm saying that right.
There are a number of other species of this pathogen that infect snakes and insectivorous animals, some that infect monkeys, but it's only this one species that seems to be important for humans and which infects only humans as far as we know.
It's a type of parasite called an apicomplexin.
Okay.
Which I know that we've talked about parasites in this phylum before, but I don't know that we've actually said that word.
But it's the same group that includes malaria parasites, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidium, which we have not done yet.
Nope.
And of course, there are lots of other protozoan parasite friends that we've covered on this podcast, like Chagas disease, Girardia, etc.,
Those are just sort of slightly different vibes.
Yeah.
So we get exposed to the infectious stage of this parasite from either food or water in our mouths that has been contaminated with old poop.
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