Newton County School Superintendent (NCSS) Samantha Fuhrey is inviting NCSS students to design the cover of her official holiday card. The contest is open to all NCSS elementary, middle, and high school students.
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) disease is caused by infection with the larval stage of Echinococcus multilocularis, a ~1-4 millimeter long tapeworm found in foxes, coyotes, and dogs (definitive hosts).Small rodents are intermediate hosts for E. multilocularis.lthough cases of AE in animals in endemic areas are relatively common, human cases are rare. AE poses a much greater health threat to people than CE, causing parasitic tumors that can form in the liver, lungs, brain, and other organs. If left untreated, AE can be fatal.
78 Followers. A. No, yeast infections are not contagious in the way a cold or the flu is. Yeast infections are caused by a fungus (more specifically, a yeast) called candida.Candida is a commensal organism, meaning that under healthy conditions it lives harmlessly in our bodies.We all have candida living on our skin and in our intestines, and healthy women carry candida in their vaginas.east infections are caused by a fungus (more specifically, a yeast) called candida. Candida is a commensal organism, meaning that under healthy conditions it lives harmlessly in our bodies. We all have candida living on our skin and in our intestines, and healthy women carry candida in their vaginas.