PBS NewsHour
They ranged from leprosy, dysentery, elephantiasis, sleeping sickness, malaria, yellow fever, to wounds incurred by encounters with wild animals and many common health problems to which the human body is subject.
Nature.com
Here we show that GNLY delivers Gzms into three protozoan parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii and Leishmania major), in which the Gzms generate superoxide and inactivate oxidative defense enzymes to kill the parasite.
The Herald
Three researchers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in discovering treatments for malaria, river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis. “We're at a very interesting time in global health ...
Initiative: Teachers trained on deworming pupils Initiative: Teachers trained on deworming pupilsPulse.com.ghThe exercise, which was supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the End Neglected Tropical Disease in Africa Project, was carried out in collaboration with the School Health and Education Programme (SHEP).
Belfast Telegraph
HEALTH Vaccine: Scientists say they have taken a major step towards the development of a vaccine for a neglected tropical disease that affects an estimated 17 million people globally.
American trypanosomiasis / Chagas
Pharmacy Today, American Pharmacists Association, pharmacist.com
A new robotic drug screening facility in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy will also be used to test thousands of Janssen R&D compounds for their ability to kill or inhibit Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Infection Control Today ...
Pharmacy Times
“Chagas disease is known as a neglected tropical disease because of the lack of resources and attention dedicated to studying, preventing, and treating it, especially considering the millions of people it affects,” said pharmacy school dean James ...
Voice of Guanacaste
Recently, in November of 2015, a woman in Nosara was bitten by a triatomine bug (also called a kissing bug), which drew the attention of the Ministry of Health due to the possible appearance of Chagas disease in the canton of Nicoya.
Burial ulcer:
Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria National Science Foundation (press release)Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteriaNational Science Foundation (press release)Brunet de Courssou had taken samples of the clay to Africa, where she documented its ability to cure Buruli ulcer, a flesh-eating skin disease, for patients in Ivory Coast.
Dengue:
The Star Online
KUALA TERENGGANU: There is a drop in the number of dengue patients in the state but the capital here remains on high alert after two new localities were declared outbreak areas.
Dominican Today
Santo Domingo.– Dengue was responsible for the death of 103 Dominicans in 2015, mostly children and poor people who were taken to public health centers seeking medical attention but many of them were misdiagnosed or were not provided the adequate ...
Hawaii Tribune Herald
Access to Waipio Valley could remain restricted for 8-12 weeks even after no new cases of dengue fever have been confirmed in the area, according to Hawaii County Civil Defense officials. Meanwhile, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources ...
Big Island Video News
SOUTH KONA, Hawaii – Struggling as an area of high risk for dengue fever since an outbreak began in September, South Kona communities are looking at the viability of a new tool in the fight against the mosquito-borne disease.
Economic Times
MUMBAI: An expert consultative committee of the Indian drug regulatory agency has waived a large-scale clinical trial for a dengue vaccine developed by French drug maker Sanofi.
New Straits Times Online
SHAH ALAM: Alarmed by the spike in the number of dengue cases in Jalan Kubah, Bukit Jelutong, a group of residents took matters into their own hands and have been organising an annual gotong-royong to eliminate Aedes breeding grounds.
Business Insider
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of dengue cases in Thailand is expected to spike this year, a researcher said, as experts from across Asia met to discuss introduction of the first ever dengue vaccine to control and prevent the disease ...
Jakarta Post
Yana Suleman, head of the disease control and environmental health (P2PL) unit at the Gorontalo Health Agency, said the number of dengue fever patients would likely increase as local hospitals had reported an increasing number of incoming patients ...
KHON2
The state Dept. of Health confirmed on Friday, Jan. 15, that there were 223 cases of dengue fever on Hawaii Island, up five from the day before. Of the confirmed cases, 201 are Hawaii Island residents and 22 are visitors.
Dengue Fever Prompts Hawaii Campground, Trail, Road Closures Big Island NowDengue Fever Prompts Hawaii Campground, Trail, Road Closures
ABC News
Hawaii officials closed a Big Island road, campground and hiking trail in an effort to stop the spread of a dengue fever outbreak that has sickened 223 residents and visitors as of Friday.
NBCNews.com
A team is setting up in Brazil to test an experimental vaccine against dengue, a cousin to Zika that's spread by the same mosquitoes and can cause a ghastly and deadly hemorrhagic fever.
The Star Online
A study showed that 98.1% of the 2,512 participants nationwide were aware Aedes mosquitoes transmit dengue and of dengue symptoms such as fever, joint and back pains, rashes and chills, said Universiti Malaya's Department of Social and Preventive ...
The Star Online
KUANTAN: When it rains, it pours. For a family in the village of Panji Alam, the monsoon rain brought along Aedes mosquitoes.
The Cairns Post
“While no cases of dengue fever have been confirmed this season, all residents should take action in protecting themselves against the disease,'' she said. Dengue mosquitoes feed during the day and breed around homes, rather than in swamps or creeks
Waipio Valley closed to public due to ongoing dengue fever outbreak Waipio Valley closed to public due to ongoing dengue fever outbreak
Hawaii News Now
Hawaii County Civil Defense has closed Waipio Valley to the public due to the dengue fever outbreak on the Big Island. Civil Defense Administrator Darryl Oliveira said the Waipio Valley Access Road and valley area were closed to all non-resident ...
A review of deaths attributed to dengue fever in Punjab has found that in 70% of these cases reported in the past three years by the media and private hospitals, the cause was instead septicaemia or related illnesses.
Outbreak News Today
Officials with the health ministry are saying the dengue situation will likely be fueled by the El Nino phenomenon, which is expected to worsen the dengue epidemic by as much as 50 per cent.
Every suspected death of a dengue patient is reviewed by the committee's of the experts, initially at district level under the chairmanship of Civil Surgeon and thereafter at the state level under the Chairmanship of Director Health Services of the ...
Two individuals on the Big Island who have confirmed cases of dengue fever remain infectious, as of Thursday afternoon. The Hawai'i Department of Health notes that the individuals have onset of illness dates between Jan. 6 and Jan. 8, and are the only ...
Dengue vaccine enters phase 3 trial in Brazil Fox NewsDengue vaccine enters phase 3 trial in Brazil
National Institutes of Health (press release)
A large-scale clinical trial to evaluate whether a candidate vaccine can prevent the mosquito-borne illness dengue fever has been launched in Brazil. The vaccine, TV003, was developed by scientists in the laboratory of Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., at NIH …
The Hindu
Tension prevailed at Sankarankovil Government Hospital for a while on Wednesday after a 16-year-old girl, who was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday night with suspected symptoms of dengue, breathed her last.
West Hawaii Today
The state Department of Health will hold weekly dengue information sessions in Kona and Hilo to provide updates and answer questions from the community about the Hawaii Island dengue outbreak.
KHON2
The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) will hold weekly dengue informational sessions in Kona and Hilo to provide timely updates and answer questions from the community about the Hawaii Island dengue outbreak.
Hawaii Tribune Herald
Hawaii County Civil Defense announced Wednesday afternoon that it had shut down traffic access to Waipio Valley as a precaution in the ongoing fight against the dengue fever outbreak.
The Star Online
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysians may be well-educated about dengue but they little effort to help eradicate the menace, says Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam. The Health Minister said if Malaysians changed their attitude and helped to reduce the number of dengue ...
The Star Online
This is a 61.9% jump in fatal cases compared to the previous year of 21 deaths from the 6,874 dengue cases reported. To stop this outbreak, Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) Health and Environment Department director Dr Hayati Abdullah said the combined ...
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
As of 1 p.m. today (Jan 13) the Department of Health reported two new confirmed cases of Dengue Fever. The total number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak rises to 215.
New Straits Times Online
SHAH ALAM: Selangor continues to hold the highest number of dengue cases in the country, with a total of 2,283 cases from January 3 to 12. State Health, Welfare, Women and Family Affairs executive councillor Dr Daroyah Alwi said state government has ...
New Straits Times Online
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry is not fully convinced based on local data whether the dengue vaccine will resolve the dengue problem in the country. “Based on the data we have, the vaccine is useful for those aged between 9 to 19 years old, but not ...
Big Island Now
The Hawai'i Department of Health plans to host weekly dengue information sessions in Hilo and Kona through February. Community sessions will provide updates and answers to questions from the community about the dengue fever outbreak on the Big ...
Hawaii Tribune-Herald (subscription)
Three new cases of dengue fever were confirmed Tuesday on Hawaii Island, bringing the total for the outbreak since Sept. 11 to 212. Currently, health officials know of only a single case that remains potentially infectious, but warn there could be many ...
West Hawaii Today
Three additional cases of dengue fever were confirmed on the Big Island Tuesday, health officials said. The three new cases bring the total confirmed dengue fever count on the Big Island to 213. Of the confirmed cases, 193 are Hawaii Island residents ...
The New Paper
It was not exactly a very merry Christmas or a happy new year for Aljunied GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Pritam Singh. He came down with dengue fever for the first time and was hospitalised during the festive period.
Latinos Health
AKARTA, INDONESIA - APRIL 12: An Indonesian man fumigates a yard to expel Dengue Fever carrying mosquitoes during an outbreak of the tropical disease, on April 12, 2007 in Capital City Jakarta, Indonesia.
Free Malaysia Today
KANGAR: Perlis will step up 'gotong-royong' (communal cleaning) activities to check the spread of dengue fever, having recorded 14 cases in the first 12 days of this year. No deaths from the disease were reported, said Perlis Director of Health…
Fiji TimesUpdate:
5:31PM THE Ministry of Health and Medical Services has recorded eight dengue fever cases in the Northern Division. Ministry spokesperson Evlyn Mani said the cases were recorded since the beginning of this month.
New Straits Times Online
KUALA LUMPUR: Extra beds have been added to the dengue ward to accommodate the increasing number of patients at Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Since the beginning of this year, there has been a steady flow of patients admitted and diagnosed, causing the ...
The Express Tribune
PESHAWAR: A joint strategy meeting will be held on Wednesday (today) to plan how to prevent dengue from spreading in Peshawar, stated a press release issued by the city district nazim's office on Tuesday.
New Straits Times Online
He said an exceptionally high number of dengue cases and dengue deaths were reported lately as the rainy season was coming to an end, followed by the hot season which offered ideal conditions for mosquito-breeding, particularly for the Aedes mosquito.
KHON2
The state Dept. of Health confirmed on Tuesday, Jan. 12, that there were 213 cases of dengue fever on Hawaii Island, up three from Monday, Jan. 11. Officials say 193 residents and 20 visitors were affected by the locally acquired disease.
The Straits Time
Last week's total of 544 new dengue cases is the highest recorded for the month of January, traditionally the low season for this viral disease. The figure, released yesterday, was 96 up on the previous week, and the third weekly rise.
The Straits Times
In an interview at the conference, Dr Raman Velayudhan, the Geneva-based coordinator at WHO's Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, told The Straits Times: "Essentially it is agreed that the vaccine is one strategy."
The Star Online
STAGNANT water in clogged drains, uncollected garbage, rubbish dumped in drains and illegal dumping ground — this was the sight greeting people just a stone's throw away from the Penang Island City Council's (MBPP) office at the Balik Pulau market ...
The Star Online
PETALING JAYA: Public hospitals are prepared for the possible increase in the number of dengue cases requiring hospitalisation. “We are optimising our resources to cater to the predicted increase in dengue cases,” said Health director-general Datuk Dr ...Dengue cases to spike 50% with El Nino, says Health
Malay Mail Online
File picture shows a city council worker carrying out fogging in Taman Pakatan, Ipoh, as the number of dengue cases in Perak and other states show significant increases.
Business Insider
One of the actors of Amazon's next big drama series, "Mad Dogs," got very sick while shooting it in Puerto Rico. "It was a very difficult shoot. It was very hot, very humid. Steve caught dengue fever shooting the pilot," executive producer Shawn Ryan ...
Karen News
Naw Tender runs a small clinic in a converted room in her house in Htaw Ywae village in Karen State and said 2015 was a hard year for dengue fever.
The Star Online
State Health, Women, Family and Community Development committee chairman Datuk Muhammad Pehimi Yusof said the decision to set up Combi committees was made at the meeting of the State Special Dengue Committee on Wednesday and it would ...
Dengue fever kills 38 children in Cambodia last year Dengue fever kills 38 children in Cambodia last year
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted through the bite of an Aedes mosquito which is a day-biting mosquito. Its symptoms include sudden onset of high fever which can last from three to seven days, severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, and rash.
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) The dengue fever outbreak in Taiwan has led to the deaths of 224 people in Taiwan since it first emerged in May 2015, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday.
Xinhua
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Dengue fever claimed the lives of 38 Cambodian children in 2015, up 81 percent from the year before, according to the latest figures on Tuesday.
Big Island Now
Hawai'i Department of Health officials said Monday that the count remains at 210 cases, with only one individual currently listed as infectious.
Channel News Asia
A total of 554 cases were reported during the week ending Jan 9 - 96 cases more than the previous week, according to the National Environment Agency, which added that a change in the main type of dengue virus circulating could be an early indicator of ...
The Malaysian Insider
A worker fumigates abandoned tyres, a breeding ground for mosquitoes. The Health Ministry is expecting a spike by as much as 50% in dengue cases during the dry and hot weather spell.
Malay Mail Online
Mohd Yusoff Rosdi (left) and Mohd Al-Hafidz Rosdi try to keep cool outside their house in Ulu Yam Baru. The Health Ministry has warned that the Aedes mosquito population is expected to increase because of the heat.
The Star Online
“The Ministry will also educate and provide training for members of the Residents' Representative Committees through the Communication for Behavioural Impact Local Agenda 21 (COMBI LA-21) on dengue prevention methods as well as enable the ...
The Express Tribune
LAHORE: Chief Secretary Khizar Hayat Gondal directed the Health Department authorities on Monday to be prepared to deal with dengue fever. The chief secretary chaired a meeting to review dengue fever prevention measures at Civil Secretariat.
Fox News Latino
The Paraguayan Health Ministry said Monday that "the best vaccine against dengue" is the elimination of breeding grounds of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the disease, while warning that the vaccine administered in some countries is far from ..
Malay Mail Online
The Health ministry is studying the efficacy of the world's first dengue vaccine before making a decision on its use in the country.
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Kaohsiung, which recorded nearly 20,000 cases of dengue fever last year and was one of the hardest-hit cities in the country, had reported 146 cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the first 10 days of this year, compared with 33 cases in the same ...
The Sun Daily
PETALING JAYA: Dengue cases have been increasing, with 3,337 cases reported on the first week of 2016 alone. This is a sharp increase compared to the same period last year, in which there were only 2,633 dengue cases reported.
Big Island Video News
HILO, Hawaii – The Hawaii County Council approved a $5,000 grant to be used for the fight against dengue fever in Miloli'i.
The Star Online
It has been reported that the Dengvaxia dengue vaccine has been approved for use in Mexico, the Philippines and Brazil. Earlier reports also indicate that, while the vaccine has lower effectiveness against serotype II, overall it was effective in ...
The Interpreter
The world's first dengue fever vaccine, which in clinical trials has prevented up to 93% of severe dengue cases in people aged 6-45, is about to be released in Mexico, the Philippines and Brazil.
The Hindu
A high-school science project from Bidar aimed at creating awareness about dengue and preventing it from spreading, has won accolades at the 23rd National Children's Science Congress held recently in Chandigarh.
Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines - Over a million public school students will be selected to have three doses of dengue vaccines worth P3,000, the Department of Health (DOH) said. Health Secretary Janette Garin said the DOH is spending a total of P3.5 billion for ...
Pakistan Today
During campaign, the anti-dengue teams found dengue larva at 856 sites including 508 indoor and 348 outdoor places, he said and added that cases however were registered against 2,032 persons on the charge of recovery of dengue larva and not making ...
The Standard
LEYTE Rep. Martin Romualdez, a senatorial bet, on Sunday urged the government and Congress to allocate more resources for the administration of dengue vaccine to show malasakit (compassion) to poor students in public schools nationwide and even ...
Outbreak News Today
However, in terms of probable dengue fever cases (defined as a person who has a fever or history of fever for 2-7 days duration, two or more symptoms of dengue and one serological test positive or epidemiological nexus with confirmed dengue case 14 ...
New Straits Times Online
PUTRAJAYA: Statistic provided by the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC), indicates that a total of 2,404 dengue cases have been recorded nationwide from January 3 to 7.
Malay Mail Online
A pest control worker sprays insecticide to help control the spread of dengue fever carried by mosquitoes in Kuala Lumpur August 27, 2014.
The Hindu
Intensive awareness campaigning on prevention of dengue has paid off with number of cases dropping by half in the peak season period in 2015 compared to the previous year, said the Puducherry government.
Dracunculiasis / Guinea Worm
LubbockOnline.com
Thirty years ago, Guinea worm disease was a feared sickness in several developing nations. The Guinea worm is a parasite spread to those who drink water contaminated with the worm's larva, and the disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people ...
New York Times
The Global Health column on Tuesday, about efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease, referred imprecisely to former President Jimmy Carter's cancer. While he had a cancerous mass removed from his liver last summer, he did not have liver cancer.
Jimmy Carter to receive top honors for his work. Jimmy Carter consoles a young patient having a worm removed from her body in Savelugu, Ghana, in February 2007. The Carter Center leads the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease.
South Sudan announces significant reduction in cases of guinea worm disease Sudan TribuneSouth Sudan announces significant reduction in cases of guinea worm diseaseSudan Tribune"Therefore, the Ministry of Health is proud to announce that South Sudan is on the verge of eliminating Guinea Worm Disease!
Progress in Jimmy Carter's Quest to End Guinea Worm Disease New York TimesProgress in Jimmy Carter's Quest to End Guinea Worm DiseaseNew York TimesOnly 22 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported in 2015, the Carter Center announced last week, a significant drop from the 126 cases reported in 2014.
The Inquisitr
A horrible flesh-eating disease known as Guinea Worm Disease has no cure, but that doesn't mean it can't be something that is eliminated.
Hansen's disease / Leprosy
The London Economic
A hospital in Nepal that has barely emerged from the ravages of last April's earthquake is struggling to stay open because of the continuing fuel shortage caused by a trade blockade.
Times of India
Anil Roy, medical officer of health, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation and S T Pardeshi, his equivalent in the Pune Municipal Corporation, confirmed the presence of leprosy cases with advanced stage.
Daily Mail
LONDON, Jan 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of people live with the effects of leprosy and tens of thousands of new cases are reported every year, but the debilitating disease can be eliminated given enough resources, an organisation helping ...
The Malaysian Insider
Foreigners have encroached into the vacant homes left by former leprosy patients.
Daily Pioneer
More than 3 lakh people of five districts falling under Durg division are at a risk of getting infected with malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy and many of them have been found to be at a higher risk.
Nepal visit highlights plight caused by earthquake and leprosy Isle of Man TodayNepal visit highlights plight caused by earthquake and leprosyIsle of Man TodayShe said: 'I knew I would see poverty, patients who have leprosy and the devastation caused by April's earthquake but knowing it and seeing it are different. The reality of what you are faced with is something for which you can never be quite prepared.
Human African trypanosomiasis / Sleeping Sickness:
Phys.Org
While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they've been left scratching their heads as to how these tiny single-celled organisms communicate.
UGA Today
While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they've been left scratching their heads as to how these tiny single-celled organisms communicate.
Leishmaniasis
Huffington Post
It is caused by the Leishmania parasite, which is carried by sandflies. If you're bitten by a fly, the parasites can enter your blood and invade the macrophage immune cells that normally kill bugs, causing causing horrible open sores close to the bite…
Science Codex
Following introduction into mammalian hosts (including humans) by the bite of a sand fly, Leishmania parasites undergo extensive changes to adapt to survival and multiplication inside the new host cells and tissues.
Lymphatic filariasis / Elephantiasis
Fiji Times
THE Health Ministry has ended its lymphatic filariasis mass drug administration (MDA) program, achieving an 80 per cent coverage rate following the MDA program conducted late last year in Malolo, Taveuni and the Eastern Division.
Fiji Times
Update: 3:06PM THE data for the lymphatic filariasis mass drug administration (MDA) that was conducted late last year in Malolo, Taveuni and the Eastern Division is still being analysed.
Onchocerciasis / River Blindness
Kaiser Family Foundation
... who's completely blind,] is well aware his life would have been very different if these drugs had come earlier. He says the worst thing about onchocerciasis was that it hit him when he was in his 20s and robbed him of the chance to marry ...
NPR
So ivermectin is a versatile drug? It works on a bunch of different diseases. In addition to river blindness, the other main neglected tropical disease it's used on is elephantiasis, that awful swelling of the legs.
Outbreak News Today
EMVERM is indicated for the treatment of Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm), Trichuris trichiura (whipworm), Ascaris lumbricoides (common roundworm), Ancylostoma duodenale (common hookworm), Necator americanus (American hookworm) in single or ...
Drug Store News
Impax Laboratories gets FDA green-light for pinworm tablets
NPR
Kwame first started to get sick with onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, when he was in his 20s. The disease is caused by a roundworm infection that's spread by black flies. "I started having nodules [lumps of worms just under the skin ...
NPR
Indeed, the World Health Organization categorizes river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, as a "neglected tropical disease." But over the last three decades much of the world has made steady progress against the debilitating condition.
FierceVaccines
The research initiative - The Onchocerciasis Vaccine for Africa (TOVA) - was launched as a response to the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases which called for tools to eliminate river blindness from Africa.
Pharmaceutical Processing
More than 90 percent of cases of river blindness—listed by The World Health Organization as a neglected tropical disease—occur in west and central Africa.
News-Medical.net
The world's first vaccine for a disease that causes misery for millions in Africa could be tested within five years.
EurekAlert (press release)
The world's first vaccine for a disease that causes misery for millions in Africa could be tested within five years. Researchers have taken a major step towards developing a vaccine against river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, which affects ...
BT.com
Scientists say they have taken a major step towards the development of a vaccine for a neglected tropical disease that affects an estimated 17 million people globally.
Rabies
FOX 40 News WICZ TV
Delaware County Public Health reports that a raccoon found in the Town of Hamden has tested positive for rabies. No human exposures to the animal and contagious disease have been reported. A total of three animals tested positive for rabies in 2015 ...
My Panhandle
A raccoon received by the Jackson County Health Department has tested positive for rabies, officials wrote in a news release. The raccoon fought with and was killed by a dog on Two Oaks Drive South of Marianna.
KSL.com
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Health officials in North Dakota say a kitten that was found in the parking lot of a high school in Fargo has tested positive for rabies.
Tri-State Neighbor
MANHATTAN, Kan. – When rabies is mentioned, it often conjures classic images from movies of an infected animal running rabid.
WDEF News 12
BLUE RIDGE, GA (WDEF) -North Georgia Health officials say they're concerned after several dogs tested positive for rabies. Three Fannin County dogs fought and killed a raccoon that tested positive for rabies. Officials say the dogs were not vaccinated ...
Times of India
Dr RP Bhatt, director-general of the state health department, had claimed a fortnight ago that orders for 2,000 vials of the anti-rabies injection had been placed. However, despite the acute scarcity, neither has the DG procured these injections nor ...
KTXS
The rabies virus is transmitted through saliva or brain/nervous system tissue. You can only get rabies by coming in contact with these specific bodily excretions and tissues. It's important to remember that rabies is a medical urgency but not an emergency.
Suffolk News-Herald
A stray cat that scratched and bit a resident along White Marsh Road has tested positive for rabies, and the victim is being treated for exposure to the disease, according to the Suffolk Health Department. The resident had been trying to care for the ...
The New Indian Express
Dr D Narayanappa, Head of the Department of Paediatrics, JSS Medical College Hospital, told City Express, “Once a person begins showing signs and symptoms of rabies, it is nearly always fatal.
WSOC Charlotte
The horse from York County is the first animal from that county to test positive for rabies in 2016. There have now been two confirmed cases of rabies statewide in 2016. Nine animals tested positive in York County in 2015 and a total of 130 confirmed ...
Houston Chronicle
The Texas Department of State Health Services launched the Oral Rabies Vaccination Program in 1995 in the midst of a massive outbreak of rabies among coyotes and gray foxes in Texas. Each winter, the agency drops millions of doses of vaccine from ...
Bryan-College Station Eagle
Starting in La Grange on Tuesday, small planes took flight and will be heading south to 17 different counties, dropping small "fishmeal crumbles" from the air to the land down below, each crumble loaded with a rabies vaccine.
KPRC Houston
LA GRANGE, Texas - State health officials this week are starting another round of air drops over a 17-county area of Central and Southeast Texas to control rabies in wild animals.
The Flamborough Review (press release) (registration)
The rabies-baiting program had proven successful since September 2005, when the last case was discovered. That ended early last month, when Hamilton's Animal Services received a call about a sick raccoon in the Stoney Creek area.
Huffington Post Canada
HAMILTON — Chris Davies was in his office at Trent University one Friday afternoon in early December when he got word that a raccoon had tested positive for rabies in Hamilton.
Horsetalk
Analysis of samples taken from 218 Brazilian equids showing clinical signs of nervous or behavioural changes revealed that 37 of them, or 17 percent, had rabies. The researchers from the Biological Institute and the Pasteur Institute, both in Sao Paulo ...
Schistosomiasis
Business Wire (press release)
Schistosomiasis-Pipeline Insights, 2016 provides in depth insights on the pipeline drugs and their development activities around the Schistosomiasis. The report covers the product profiles in various stages of development including Discovery, Pre ...
Healio
The NIH recently granted Afzal A. Siddiqui, PhD, a research scientist at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, a $3.82 million phase 2 grant to prepare a schistosomiasis vaccine for human clinical trials, according to a press release.
Soil transmitted helminthiases
Toaletele romane erau o sursă de paraziţi și infecții (Translation: Roman toilets were a source of parasites and infections)
Historia
Dintre aceştia, cei mai răspândiţi erau triocefalul (Trichuris trichiura) şi limbricul (Ascaris lumbricoides). Se crede că paraziţii au fost transmişi prin mâncare, aceasta fiind preparată cu mâinile necurăţate, sau prin utilizarea fecalelor drept ...
Science /AAAS
Despite the Romans' sanitation technology, Mitchell found that intestinal parasites like whipworm (Trichuris trichiura), roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and Entamoeba histolytica (the causative agent of dysentery) increased in areas after the Romans ...
Gizmodo Australia
He had hardened arteries, he was infected with whipworm, he had multiple fractures in his ribs and he died courtesy of an arrow to the shoulder. A new report, published in Science, shows that he was infected with an ulcer-causing strain of H. pylori …
Inilah.com
Gejala yang ditimbulkan biasanya seperti, anemia, berat badan turun, nafsu makan turun, ada reaksi alergi; Ancylostoma Duodenale dan Necator Americanus (Cacing Tambang).
The Manila Times
It also includes new sections on recent developments in the field and other topics relevant to the country such as neglected tropical diseases, preventive chemotherapy, emporiatrics, and laboratory biosafety.
Dnevne novine
"Ukupan broj do sada evidentiranih slučajeva s pozitivnim mikrobiološkim nalazima stolica je 80. Reč je o crevnom parazitu ascaris lumbricoides", navodi se u saopštenju. Epidemiju je proglasila Higijensko-epidemiološka služba (HES) Doma zdravlja ...
...Researchers say he was about 5ft 2.5 inches (159cm) tall, 46 years old, arthritic and infested with whipworm - an intestinal parasite. His perfectly preserved body is stored in his own specially designed cold storage chamber at the South Tyrol Museum ...
Medill Reports: ChicagoDirty little secret about ancient Rome: latest poop on the empireMedill Reports: ChicagoHuman whipworms, a parasite that causes intestinal disease, seem to have been the most widespread parasite in the empire, with evidence recovered in eight countries, including Austria, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Israel.
Schistosomiasis
National Catholic Reporter
In Palo, Philippines, 68 percent of schoolchildren are infected withschistosomiasis. In this neighborhood, almost every adult has tested positive for the parasite, which is spread through skin contact with contaminated water.
Other Neglected Conditions:
Snakebite
Business Standard
A 28-year-old woman and her one-year-old son died due to snake bite in Singai village, police said here today. Chandrakanta, her child Golu and her husband Ashok were bitten by a snake last night, they said.
onmanorama
It is said that snake venom can sometimes kill a person within 10 minutes. Here are a few steps that could help save the life of the victim before he or she is injected with the prescribed dose of anti-venom:
Yahoo7 News
Urban expansion could be partly to blame for an increase in snake bites in parts of southeast Queensland including Brisbane's northern suburbs, an expert says.
Slate Magazine
Lewin, a wilderness physician, first began thinking about snakebite treatments after he became a fellow at the California Academy of Sciences.
SahilOnline
Mangaluru: A 45-year-old woman died of snakebite at Noochila near Subrahmanya in Sullia taluk on Friday. The victim has been identified as Meenakshi of Nocchila.
Leadership Newspapers
In the bid to contain the rampant incidents of snakebites in Kanke, Panshin and Shendam communities of Plateau state, the federal government has donated large quantities of Anti-Snake Venom (ASV) to the Plateau state government.
BLOGS:
Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials have closed a Big Island road amid an ongoing dengue fever outbreak. There are 218 confirmed cases as of Friday.
Foreign Policy (blog)
He needed the instrument to search for new drugs from plants, including those that might be used as treatments for malaria and mycetoma, the flesh-eating fungal infection that burdens Sudan's poorest.
Medgadget.com (blog)
This report provides comprehensive information on the therapeutic development for Rabies, complete with comparative analysis at various stages, therapeutics assessment by drug target, mechanism of action (MoA), route of administration (RoA) and ...
Medgadget.com (blog)
This report on Elephantiasis (Lymphatic Filariasis) also includes an review of trial numbers as well as their ( Elephantiasis (Lymphatic Filariasis) ) average enrollment in uppermost/top countries which are conducted worldwide.
Daily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)
Tanzania was among the first countries to launch trachoma control program with support from the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), using surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvement (SAFE) strategy with azithromycin ...
Borderzine.com (blog)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Chagas disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) can be transmitted through the feces of blood-sucking triatomine bugs, known as “kissing bugs.”
Medgadget.com (blog)“Schistosomiasis Global 2015 Clinical Trials Review, H2” provides an detailed overview of Schistosomiasis scenario. Report includes top line data relating on Schistosomiasis Global clinical trials scenario.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Dotiwala F, Mulik S, Polidoro RB, Ansara JA, Burleigh BA, Walch M, Gazzinelli RT, Lieberman J.
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Articles
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Ferreira VP, Fazito Vale V, Pangburn MK, Abdeladhim M, Ferreira Mendes-Sousa A, Coutinho-Abreu IV, Rasouli M, Brandt EA, Meneses C, Lima KF, Nascimento Araújo R, Horácio Pereira M, Kotsyfakis M, Oliveira F, Kamhawi S, Ribeiro JM, Gontijo NF, Collin N, Valenzuela JG.
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