All right to welcome my name is divine. This is episode 437 of the divine

intervention podcasts and to these podcasts I'm going to be addressing on a topic I

like to call infectious populations.

I'd like to call this infectious populations.

This is an infectious diseases podcast, but it's really hard to categorize things here.

It's basically a grab bag of very high-yled, weird things you may see on your exam. that one you may not find in many resources, two, it may be very poorly defined because it cuts across many different things.

Many of these things are almost like situational scenarios.

Things you kind of need to keep in mind.

So let's go ahead and jump in.

So, what if they give you a question about

IV drug user that comes to the physician because for the last few days he has noticed he allowing of his skin, he has not been doing particularly well he has been feeling nauseous

having mouth fevers and things like that and they ask what is going to be your

next best step in diagnosis.

I would really hope you're saying,

Devine, I'm going to go ahead and make sure that I screen this person

for the hepatitis viruses, especially

have bee, especially hebee, especially

hebee.

Especially he be.

Now, obviously you're still gonna screen for for Hep C as well. But maybe let me

concentrate on these IV drug users for a bit because there are many of these

weird things they love to go after with these people on exams. The first thing is

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