{"id":502,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong>Infections<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zQGOcOUBi6s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An infection is the colonization of a host organism by a foreign organism. The infecting organism seeks to utilize the host&rsquo;s resources to multiply. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The infecting organism, or <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pathogen\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">pathogen<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">, interferes with the normal functioning of the host. The host&#8217;s response to infection is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inflammation\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">inflammation<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Rhinovirus-3-protein-capsid.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=503\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Rhinovirus 3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Many individuals develop a variety of infections but quickly overcome them. Some develop persistent infections, which are mostly caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virus\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">viruses<\/span><\/a> and not bacteria.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An infectious disease can be transmitted by a parasite. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parasitic_disease\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Parasitic diseases<\/span><\/a> can affect almost all living organisms. Some parasites like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toxoplasma_gondii\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Toxoplasma gondii<\/span><\/a> can cause disease directly, but other organisms can cause a disease by the toxins that they produce.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Toxoplasma_gondii.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=631\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Dividing Toxoplasma parasites<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=1029\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infections&nbsp; An infection is the colonization of a host organism by a foreign organism. The infecting organism seeks to utilize the host&rsquo;s resources to multiply. The infecting organism, or pathogen, interferes with the normal functioning of the host. The host&#8217;s response to infection is inflammation. Rhinovirus 3 Many individuals develop a variety of infections but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}