Talk:Contagious disease

Redirect to Infection

This page should be redirected or merged to Infection. Per the Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary, contagious disease "originally, a disease transmitted only by direct physical contact: now usually taken to mean any communicable disease". Both Communicable disease and Infectious disease redirect to Infection. 109.79.134.144 (talk) 11:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Five years later, I agree. —Will^(B) 19:25, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

And an additional year beyond that, I also agree. There is no objection to the merge/redirect. Senator2029 ❮talk❯ 02:06, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Proposed section: Human contagion thru the world of microbes

This Contagion article, new to me, is much better than I expected. Glad I donate to WP.

I disagree "contagion" and "infection" should be merged. The Public Health Education hole we are in in 2020 was in part largely dug by conflating bacteria, mold, fungi and viruses all together, especially in the public's mind. What converging "contagion" and "infection"topics is likely to do is make the coverup- of how Koch's postulates have been successively diluted to point of uselessness harder to perceive.

Hence how about this section, improvement encouraged:

Protozoa ~ Isolated as cause: Yes. Healthy individual infected by injection (mosquito, Tsetse fly): Yes [not controversial]

Bacteria ~ Isolated as cause for some, not all diseases: Yes. Healthy individuals infected by contact [varies]: Yes for some diseases not for other diseases. [not controversial but rarely articulated as not aligned with drug agendas]

Mold & fungi ~ Infect thru direct contact and by spore transmission. [not controversial]

Viruses ~ [most controversial. The topic of how virology almost died in teh 1930s due to lack of evidence is of interest. How virology was resucitated as a false explanation for polio may or may not be relevant (polio caused by poisoning of cells at top of human spine controlling motor function, poisoned by arsenic fruit sprays in teh 1930s, poisoned by DDT in the 1950s)]

The simple truth is probably this: No virus EVER has been isolated and proven to satisfy Koch's postulates as originally given. Viruses are many times smaller than bacteria. Research on proving viral infection-contagion is on-going in 2020. Published papers reach diverging conclusions. [viruses explained as exosomes does not seem likely to me. neither does AIDS explained by HIV virus. AZT was plenty toxic enuf to kill patients with already overwhelmed immune systems]

Retroviruses ~ Certainly implicated in AIDS and probably in all Lyme-like diseases, chronic fatigue-like diseases and MS. In 2018 and on-going RVs are educating us a list of negative toxins, accidents, emotional losses and so on "activate" sleeping RVs. Among others, Mercury toxicity from amalgam fillings probably the big activator of RVs. It may be some RVs serve strictly regulatory functions while others are more like what the public thinks: "bad germs out to get us."

At this point we are talking about modifying the meaning of "contagion" when it comes to viruses: It may be very few viruses are spread like protozoa diseases or bacterial diseases meeting Koch's original postulates. It may be more like this: viruses live in our DNA. They remain sleeping unless and until shocking life experiences, including toxicity, pandemics, etc wake them up. Then it is three or more "woke viruses" which make victims weak and lead to fatality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Healing toolbox (talk • contribs) 00:34, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

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