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  2. Catnip - Wikipedia

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    [37] [38] Oil isolated from catnip by steam distillation is a repellent against insects, in particular mosquitoes, cockroaches, and termites. [39] [40] Research suggests that, while a more effective spatial repellant than DEET, [41] it is not as effective of a repellent when used on the skin of humans as SS220 or DEET. [42]

  3. Effects of parasitic worms on the immune system - Wikipedia

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    The positive effects of parasitic worms are theorized to be a result of millions of years of evolution, when humans and human ancestors would have been constantly inhabited by parasitic worms. [9] In the journal EMBO Reports , Rook says that such helminths "are all either things that really do us no harm, or things where the immune system is ...

  4. Methcathinone - Wikipedia

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    Methcathinone / ˌ m ɛ θ ˈ k æ θ ɪ ˌ n oʊ n / (α-methyl amino-propiophenone or ephedrone) (sometimes called "cat" or "jeff" or "catnip" or "M-Kat" or "kat" or "intash") is a monoamine alkaloid and psychoactive stimulant, a substituted cathinone.

  5. What is silver vine? Everything you need to know about the ...

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    Our vet explains why and how to use it with your cat.

  6. What Is Catnip and How Does It Affect Your Cat? - AOL

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    The dose of catnip and how your cat consumes it will result in different responses: The more your cat eats or inhales it, the stronger the effect. Cats commonly react to catnip by sniffing ...

  7. Nepetalactone - Wikipedia

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    Nepetalactone is a name for multiple iridoid analog stereoisomers.Nepetalactones are produced by Nepeta cataria and many other plants belonging to the genus Nepeta, in which they protect these plants from herbivorous insects by functioning as insect repellents.

  8. Eradication of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Smallpox is the first disease, and so far the only infectious disease of humans, to be eradicated by deliberate intervention. [6] It became the first disease for which there was an effective vaccine in 1798 when Edward Jenner showed the protective effect of inoculation (vaccination) of humans with material from cowpox lesions. [10]

  9. Helminthiasis - Wikipedia

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    Helminthiasis, also known as worm infection, is any macroparasitic disease of humans and other animals in which a part of the body is infected with parasitic worms, known as helminths. There are numerous species of these parasites , which are broadly classified into tapeworms , flukes , and roundworms .