Inside Philanthropy
When the foundation made its inaugural grants at the end of 2011, nearly all of its global health awards went to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and the Against Malaria Foundation.
The Hindu
The release of sterile male mosquitoes led to 80-95 per cent suppression of the target wild population in Brazil ( PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases , July 2015). Radiation too can produce sterile males and has been successfully used for controlling ...
The Tico Times
But researchers such as Fish suggest that environmental factors have been neglected and, with no vaccine available for the Zika virus, are also a key part of the solution. So let's examine some of the major ways that ...
Chagas disease / American trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma cruzi, T. cruzi)
Latinos Health
According to the CDC website, Chagas is caused by the triatomine bug that can carry the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite that leads to the "kissing bug disease". This type of bug can be found living indoors, in cracks and holes of houses, beneath porches …
Benzinga
Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by a protozoan parasite. Chagas is mainly vector-borne transmitted to humans by contact with feces of triatomine bugs, known as 'kissing bugs,' and ...
CSUF News
Veronica Jimenez, assistant professor of biological science, and her students are studying a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease and is transmitted to animals and people by an insect vector similar to what happens with the ...
Cysticercosis / Taeniasis (Taenia solium, T. solium)
Live Science
Taeniasis can develop into cysticercosis, which is an infection of the tissue. Tapeworms belong to a large taxonomic class of flatworms called Cestoda, and more than 1,000 species have been identified.
Báo Ngày Nay
Toàn bộ cơ thể của một người phụ nữ ở Trung Quốc chứa đầy giun kí sinh và u nang do bà đã ăn thịt lợn sống trong suốt 10 năm. Tên chính thức cho căn bệnh của bà là Cysticercosis (Bệnh ấu trùng sán lợn), gây ra bởi một loại sán dây có tên Taenia solium.Kinh dị người phụ nữ ăn thịt lợn sống nhiều năm ở Trung QuốcAf
Dengue
Business Standard
There are various strains of dengue virus, which can lead to the severe dengue hemorrhagic fever. According to Shepard's calculations, dengue took ...
Jakarta PostAn increase in the number of dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in cities across the country is sucking dry blood supplies at Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) offices.
Tech Times
Wolbachia, a commonly occurring bacterial species, is injected into mosquitoes to prevent them from being infected with dengue virus.
Big Island Now
KHON2 - The state Dept. of Health said on Friday, Feb. 5, that one new case of dengue fever has been identified on Hawaii Island since Thursday, Feb. 4, bringing the total to 250.
Big Island Now
As of Friday afternoon, the total number of dengue fever cases on the Big Island has reached 250. The total cause count, which rose by one since Thursday, includes three cases that remain “potentially infectious.”
ABC Online
ELIZABETH JACKSON: There's no officially confirmed case of the Zika virus in Indonesia yet, but the nation is struggling with an outbreak of dengue fever, with patients filling the nation's hospitals.
Jakarta Globe
The incidence of dengue fever has seen a dramatic increase in Jakarta and surrounding areas since the beginning of the year, prompting neighboring Banten province to declare a health emergency on what it has described as an extraordinary situation.
Trinidad & Tobago Express
The first reported epidemics of Dengue (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) occurred in 1779-1780 in Asia, Africa, and North America.
Hiru News
... can save lives, because dengue patients can avoid serious complications such as Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and Dengue Shock Syndrome ...
Disease Forecasting Gets Boost from Unprecedented Meeting
GlobeNewswire (press release)
... Niño emerging in the Pacific may be a harbinger of a spike in cases of the dangerous hemorrhagic fever throughout southeast Asia this year.
26 from 10 countries to discuss the risk of dengue and mitigation strategies for 2016.
Residents call for stepping up the dengue battle
Dengue cases continue to increase in several Indonesian regions
ANTARA
In the meantime, Central Java Health Office is focusing on reducing and preventing the number of cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which
tends to ...
West Hawaii Today
HONAUNAU — Residents in the heart of dengue territory in South Kona are nervous about the disease, and still want more done to address an outbreak that has dragged on for four months now.
West Hawaii Today
I've been sitting here watching our governor, mayor, vector control and DOH leadership discuss the dengue situation in a press conference. After the love fest was over they could still not tell me when it will be stopped.
Forbes
A funny sounding bacteria that you've never heard of—Wolbachia—will likely be an important weapon in the fight against Zika, dengue, and other viruses plaguing the tropics. These arbovirus infections have been exploding in Latin America and the ...
The Star Online
Communities and neighbourhoods can play an active role in keeping their surroundings clean and free of Aedes mosquitoes. The dengue menace has not been eliminated and each year, there are deaths related to the disease. The Aedes mosquito is the ...
Big Island Now
One additional case of dengue fever has been confirmed on the Big Island. Hawai'i Department of Health officials said Thursday that the total number of individuals infected with dengue since the first reported case in the outbreak in September is 249.
The Star Online
KUALA LUMPUR: I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock, but that morning I felt weirder than usual as it was surprisingly difficult for me to drag myself off the bed. Everything was in slow motion. My head felt heavy.
The Star Online
KAJANG: Barely over a month into the new year, fighting dengue remains a priority for the country with an alarming rate of 7 deaths so far. The desperation is further driven by the looming Zika epidemic.
West Hawaii Today
State and county officials said Wednesday that they are close to declaring an emergency in response to Hawaii Island's dengue fever outbreak and provided more details on what that declaration might mean for response efforts.
The Conversation AU
You might have heard the term flavivirus recently due to the outbreak of Zika virus in Central and South America. Zika, along with West Nile virus, dengue, yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis, belongs to this family of virus – of which many are threats to public health.
Honolulu Civil Beat
My perspective of Zika and dengue and these other diseases that are gaining attention in the media and among the public is different than most. I have a degree in infectious diseases, and am very familiar with the names of these diseases.
West Hawaii Today
State and county officials said Wednesday that they are close to declaring an emergency in response to Hawaii Island's dengue fever outbreak and provided more details on what that declaration might mean for response efforts.
Jakarta Post
A worker conducts fogging at City Hall in Central Jakarta on March 10, 2015, a measure taken to prevent the spread of dengue fever.
Jakarta Post
Go away!: A worker from a pest control firm uses a fogging machine to kill mosquitoes at Elizabeth Hospital in Semarang, Central Java, on Tuesday.Dengue cases continue to increase in several Indonesian regions
ANTARA
In the meantime, Central Java Health Office is focusing on reducing and preventing the number of cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, which
tends to ...
Dengue Season
Jakarta Globe
A dengue hemorrhagic fever patient undergoing treatment at the Mojowarno Christian Hospital in Jombang, East Java, on Tuesday (2/2).
The mosquito: the world's smallest biggest killer
Deutsche Welle
The acute viral hemorrhagic disease is prevalent in tropical and ... Dengue fever: Once infected, carriers become transmitters and multipliers of …
New Dengue Fever Map Shows Small Risk Change In Kona
Big Island Video News
Jakarta Globe
A dengue hemorrhagic fever patient undergoing treatment at the Mojowarno Christian Hospital in Jombang, East Java, on Tuesday (2/2).
The mosquito: the world's smallest biggest killer
Deutsche Welle
The acute viral hemorrhagic disease is prevalent in tropical and ... Dengue fever: Once infected, carriers become transmitters and multipliers of …
New Dengue Fever Map Shows Small Risk Change In Kona
Big Island Video News
HAWAII ISLAND – The latest dengue fever risk map plotting the potential for infection on Hawaii Island shows the Keauhou area has been separated from Kona's high risk zone and is now an orange, moderate risk.
Hawaii News Now
Health officials identified two new cases of dengue fever on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases to 248. Three cases are potentially infectious to mosquitoes. All others are no longer infectious. Of the total confirmed cases, 224 are Hawaii ...
Latin Times
According to Reuters, a group of young volunteers in El Salvador have developed a project which they place Sambo fish in water tanks and deposits to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes that transmit zika, dengue and chikungunya because the animals ...
Huffington Post
In a December assessment of Hawaii's response to the current dengue outbreak, Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, said there are "critical deficiencies" within the Hawaii Department of Health that should be "urgently ...
PR Newswire (press release)
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEMD), today announced that a human treatment study entitled: "A Clinical Safety Study of the Aethlon Hemopurifier® in Patients with Dengue Virus Infection," has been approved by .
Hawaii News Now
Dengue fever is transmitted to humans when they are bit by infected mosquitoes. The symptoms usually include a sudden onset of fever, severe headaches, rash and eye, joint and muscle pain.
Jakarta Post
Ni Wayan Manik Kusmayoni, disease control and environmental health (P2PL) division head of the Tangerang Health Agency, said that by the end of January, the regency had seen 270 residents infected with dengue fever, 13 of whom died from the disease.
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian scientists may soon be at the forefront of the fight against the Zika virus in South America, using a biological control designed to combat dengue fever. Professor Scott O'Neill, program director of Eliminate Dengue, a Melbourne-based ...
ABC Online
Scientists in north Queensland have been working on a program to stop the transmission of dengue, which is carried by the Aedes Aegypti, the same mosquito which can carry the Zika virus.
Big Island Video News
HONOLULU – A news conference has been called by the office of Governor David Ige to “update on county/state response to the current Dengue Fever outbreak”. The news conference will take place today (Tuesday, February 2) at 11:30 a.m. and will be held ...
Smithsonian
While the world's attention is focused on the Zika virus spreading through the Americas, large urban areas in Southeast Asia are fighting off outbreaks of dengue fever.
The Indian Express
Delhi government has started preparations to not let dengue become an epidemic like last year, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said Tuesday. The government will take charge of the measures, he said, indicating the possibility that funds for fogging may not be released to municipal corporations.
Hawaii News Now
The state Department of Health has identified a case of dengue fever on Maui. The DOH mailed letters out on Jan. 29 informing residents about the case that was acquired outside of Maui.
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: Could Singaporeans' exposure to the dengue virus ironically give them some measure of protection against the Zika virus, which is strongly suspected of causing birth defects? Experts who spoke to Channel 5's current affairs programme ...
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE A total of 636 dengue cases were reported between Jan 24 and Jan 30, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Tuesday (Feb 2). There was a similar number of cases in the previous week, added NEA.
Sun.Star
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The Provincial Health Office (PHO) headed by Officer-in-Charge Dr. Antonio Rivera disclosed Tuesday that the Provincial Government of Pampanga under Governor Lilia Pineda formulated a more effective dengue prevention and ...
NPR
Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue. Updated February 2, 20166:28 AM ET Published February 2, 20165:25 AM ET. Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET.
ABC Online
A Darwin man who contracted Zika virus after being bitten by a monkey and mosquitos in Bali in 2013 said he was hospitalised with Dengue fever-like symptoms upon returning, namely fever and joint paint. Daniel Gaunt was 27 and on holidays when he went ...
Bloomberg
The French drugmaker plans to harness its work against dengue fever to attack Zika, a virus from the same family, Sanofi said in a statement on Tuesday.
Hawaii News Now
Health officials identified two new cases of dengue fever on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 244. One of the newly confirmed cases are potentially infectious to mosquitoes. All others are no longer infectious.
Maui Now
The state Department of Health tells Maui Now that they have confirmed a case of dengue fever in a resident of Maui that recently traveled to a country where dengue fever is endemic.
Deccan Chronicle
As the dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika virus (which has been currently gripping the world) are spread through the same Aedes mosquito, prevention measures have found great importance before the Zika virus makes its official entry into India.
Big Island Now
Two-hundred-and-twenty of the cases have involved individuals on the Big Island, while 24 have been within visitors to the island. A total of 1,059 individuals have been excluded from the dengue count.
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - A total of 636 dengue cases were reported for the week of Jan 24 to Jan 30 - the same number as the previous week - according to the latest figures released by the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Tuesday (Feb 2).
Escambray
An epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever occurred in Cuba in 1981, which caused 158 deaths, including 101 children, was deliberately introduced in the country by the United States, confirms an investigation that reflected Cuban magazine Bohemia Monday ...
Prensa Latina
An epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever occurred in Cuba in 1981, which caused 158 ...
Forbes
Along with the explosion of Zika virus infections in Latin America, we have a similar spike in conspiracy theorists. In my earlier post on GMO mosquitoes, now a year ago, I explained the high rates of pesticide resistance and why we need new ways of ...
Big Island Video News
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – As the debate over whether or not Hawaii should declare a state of emergency due to the outbreak of dengue fever on Hawaii Island, a West Hawaii business organization is sharing their thoughts and concerns about the impacts the ...
Hawaii Tribune Herald
Gov. David Ige didn't budge Friday afternoon after U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) called for him to declare a state of emergency in response to Hawaii Island's ongoing dengue fever outbreak.
Newsfirst
Although this is not the rainy season, the spread of Dengue mosquitoes has seen a rise. Four hundred and eighty three (483) cases have been reported this month in the Colombo Municipality.
South China Morning Post (subscription)
An Indonesian research institute said on Sunday it had found one positive Zika case on Sumatra island, adding that the virus has been circulating in the country “for a while”.
The Malaysian Insider
Papaya leaf juice has been touted as a remedy for dengue.
Newsfirst
Chief Medical Officer of Health of the Colombo Municipal Council, Dr. Ruwan Wijeyamuni said that Dengue patients have been reported for this month (January) from areas surrounding the Colombo Municipal Council.
Star2.com
Of late, there has been a sharp spike in the Aedes aegypti mosquito population, with the warmer-than-usual weather shortening the breeding and maturation cycles of the mosquitoes, as well as the incubation periods for the dengue virus.
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
Councils' failure to collect garbage is worsening the spread of dengue, Central Epidemiological Unit Director Dr. Paba Palihawadana said. About 4,500 dengue cases and eight deaths were reported in the country since early this month.
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
The virus is thought to have travelled from Cape Werde in the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil and now it is expected to affect all Latin America countries.
Times of India
NAVI MUMBAI: Even though there have been no cases of Zika virus, which is being linked to birth defects, in the city, doctors say that the Aedes Aegypti mosquito is the same species that spreads dengue.
Dracunculiasis / Guinea worm
ZME Science
Dracunculiasis, commonly referred to as the Guinea Worm disease could be soon going extinct. In 2015 there were only 22 reported cases, down from 3.5 million in 1985. Children with bandaged feet after infections.
Opposing Views
Carter's charity, the Carter Center, has been working to eliminate dracunculiasis, the disease caused by the parasite, for more than 30 years. The center's efforts have reduced the number of cases from 3.5 million cases spread throughout 31 countries ...
BBC News
The world is not there yet, but it is extremely close. Mr Carter is already setting his sights on the next debilitating disease he wants to wipe out. It's another neglected tropical disease called river blindness, spread by the bites of infected flies.
Motherboard
According to a 2015 CDC report, stopping the transmission of Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) is a four-pronged attack: educating residents in communities where the disease is endemic to avoid immersing affected body parts in sources of drinking ...
Kaiser Family Foundation
“Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says that Guinea worm disease may soon be eradicated, which would be the most exciting accomplishment of his career, although progress is hampered by ongoing conflict in Mali and South Sudan…
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Guinea worm disease is a parasite caused by drinking infected water. The worm grows inside the body, causing severe pain for up to a year.
Greenfield Daily Reporter
JUBA, South Sudan — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says that Guinea worm disease may soon be eradicated, which would be the most exciting accomplishment of his career, although progress is hampered by ongoing conflict in Mali and South Sudan.J
Latin Post
According to The Carter Center, the main goal of the "Guinea Worm Eradication Program" is to completely eliminate the Guinea worm disease.
Foodborne trematodiases (Clonorchiasis, Fascioliasis, Opisthorchiasis, Paragonimiasis)
(Dangerous disease eat foods containing 6 parasites)
YAN (lời tuyên bố phát cho các báo)
Một trong số đó là ấu trùng sán lợn Cysticercosis, sán dây lợn Taeniasolium và sán dây bò Taeniasaginata. Loài sán dây này trưởng thành có thể dài từ 4 đến 12 mét, có khoảng 1000 đốt và thường kí sinh ở ruột non. Người mắc phải sán dây có triệu chứng ...
Human African trypanosomiasis / Sleeping sickness
Coastweek
Kaloko said African countries are keen on partnering with China to help combat communicable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/Aids, as well as a host of neglected tropical diseases like Kalaazar, trachoma and sleeping sickness.
Leishmaniasis
Outbreak News Today
There are several species of Leishmania that cause disease in humans. The most common are Leishmania donovani (kala-azar), L. tropica (Baghdad boil), and L. braziliensis (espundia).
Infection Control Today
That needs to change, says Christine Petersen, associate professor of epidemiology at the UI College of Public Health and corresponding author of the paper “A Mother's Gift: Congenital Transmission of Trypanosoma and Leishmania Species,” which ...
Phys.Org
Importantly, they also show that a lipid molecule from the parasite Leishmania donovani that causes Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar), a deadly disease endemic to many tropical countries including India, is able to disrupt the clustering of Dynein ...
Nature.com
CR1 is a receptor-mediating phagocytic uptake and cell invasion by a number of infectious agents including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. leprae and Leishmania major.
Nature.com
... persist for more than 10 days (for example, as a depot or as a peripheral, purely extralymphatic sequestered infection, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus, papillomavirus or Leishmania spp. infection) does not maintain protective ...
Zee News
If untreated, the infection can also be life threatening, the research, published online in the journal PLOS Pathogens, revealed. Leishmaniasis, which usually affects the spleen, liver, and bone marrow, is spread by sand flies infected with Leishmania ...
Leprosy / Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae, M. leprae)
NewsGhana.com.gh
The celebration, which was on the theme” Early Case Detection, Minimizes Stigmatization” was attended by technical officers and their deputies of the Ghana Leprosy Service from across the country.
Christian Post
Christian organization Gospel for Asia and its supported missionaries have helped over 4,000 leprosy patients in India on World Leprosy Day as part of its ongoing ministry, and noted that social stigma and fear continue to block sufferers from getting ...
News Talk Florida(AP) -- Health officials in Panama City say a man has been diagnosed with leprosy. Dermatologist Jon Ward tells the News Herald that a patient visited his office in January with a rash that wouldn't heal.
The Hindu
The leprosy wing of the Public Health Department took out an Anti-Leprosy Day rally here on Wednesday seeking to create an awareness of the need to eradicate leprosy and lead a healthy life. Collector S. Natarajan flagged off the rally, taken out by ...
The Star Online
Bringing cheer: Heng distributing goodies and angpows to inhabitants at the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement as her vice-chairman and Selangor Wanita MCA chief Ong Chong Swen (on Heng's right) and Federal Territory Wanita MCA chief Datuk Ooi Saw ...
Times of India
Bareilly: Science might have said that leprosy is neither infectious nor contagious, but patients in the region still believe in the old stigma attached to the disease, due to which many do not even collect the financial assistance given by the ...
StarAfrica.com
Mozambican health authorities have expressed concern over continued cases of leprosy in at least four provinces despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the country free of the disease eight years ago, APA learns here on ...
AngolaPress
Cuanza Sul: 106 cases of leprosy reported. Sumbe - At least 106 cases of leprosy were reported last year in central Cuanza Sul province.
AllAfrica.com
Miss Ambassador for Peace (South-east) 2015/2016, Queen Adaeze Onah obviously reckoned that it's not enough to be a beauty queen and not touch the lives of people who really need hope.
Leadership Newspapers
I am on a humanitarian mission aimed at supporting the eradication of leprosy and its causes. I am here today with my crew at the Oji river leprosy settlement in accordance with world leprosy day to visit the lepers and support them with medical and ...
The Hindu
As many as 231 new leprosy cases have been identified in the district from April to December 2015 and treatment is being provided to them. This was disclosed during the National Anti-Leprosy Day observation here on Monday.
The Navhind Times
Leprosy was a dreaded disease in the past and there was no cure. People were isolated from society, but today the scenario has changed after the MDT medicine was discovered, said the chief medical officer of the Directorate of Health Services…
Sierra Express Media
Freetown, Jan. 29, 016 (MOHS) – As Sierra Leone joined the world in celebrating World Leprosy Day, Health and Sanitation Minister, Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofanah has said that leprosy diagnosis and treatment in all diagnostic TB Centres across the country is ..
Malay Mail Online
PKNS general manager Azlan Md Alifiah (right) and Sungai Buloh Hospital director Datuk Dr Khalid Ibrahim (middle) presenting a goodie bag to Ooi Lok Seng (left) at the National Leprosy Control Centre in Sungai Buloh.
The Hindu
JAL, an organisation based in Spain, working for the rehabilitation of leprosy affected patients and their families on Saturday organised a rally of children who have received scholarship as part of the organisation's Golden Jubilee in 2016.
NewsGhana.com.gh
He said the GHS and its partners would not be complacent on the achievements made, but would continue to intensify efforts to ensure a leprosy free Ghana and appealed to the general public to report cases early to enable them to cure the disease ...
Radio Australia
Mak blong sik Leprosy long Solomon Islands i stap aninit long mak we United Nations i tok long ol wanwan kantri long wol i noken abrisim. Dispela mak em i wanpela leprosy keis namel long 10 tausan populesen.
The Hindu
As many as 231 new leprosy cases have been identified in the district from April to December 2015 and treatment is being provided to them. This was disclosed during the National Anti-Leprosy Day observation here on Monday.
Morung Express
The Anti-Leprosy Day was observed by organizing health talks and visiting patients. The team led by Dr. Toshirenla, ZLO Dimapur also examined the patients, cleaning and dressing the affected areas of the patients and distributing free medicine
Manila Bulletin
The Department of Health (DOH) is intensifying its drive against leprosy through the use of information and communication technology. “In this generation wherein gadgets become more of a necessity than a simple accessory, we must utilize the available ...
AllAfrica.com
Known as Hansen's Disease, leprosy is caused by a type of bacteria otherwise known as mycobacterium leprae and is known to multiply very slowly. Its incubation period is said to be between 5 years while symptoms can take 20 years to appear and it ...
Times of India
A 45-year-old woman was admitted to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital for amputation of her leg on Sunday. She was suffering from leprosy for the past ten years but as social taboos are associated with the disease, she kept her disease a secret all these years.
Times of India
The world annually observes Leprosy Day by raising awareness to reduce stigma against those affected by the debilitating disease. The disease is unfortunately most often associated with the ancient world even though it has been resurfacing in ...
Myanmar Times
After nine months without medical care, the posting of a single doctor to a “leprosy village” in Yangon is only a small consolation for its nearly 200 residents.
The New Indian Express
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government has initiated many leprosy control programmes and strengthened control measures as the migrant population is growing.
Justmeans
Basel, January 31, 2016 /3BL Media/ – On World Leprosy Day 2016, the Novartis Foundation calls for a greater global commitment to the fight against leprosy to support efforts towards zero transmission of the diseaseand to reduce stigma.
ETHealthWorld.com
Dr Meena said that leprosy is a treatable disease. But, patients try to hide their disease as social taboo is associated with the disease. "In case of late diagnoses of the disease, patients land into situation where the nerves of the limbs become ...
Times of India
Dr Meena said that leprosy is a treatable disease. But, patients try to hide their disease as social taboo is associated with the disease. "In case of late diagnoses of the disease, patients land into situation where the nerves of the limbs become ...
Himalayan Times
THT photojournalist Skanda Gautam has captured smiling faces of leprosy patients who were celebrating the World Leprosy Day in Khokana of Lalitpur. World Leprosy Day celebration in Nepal: People affected by leprosy hold roses as they take part in an ...
Catch News
The last Sunday of the month of January, every year is observed as World Leprosy Day. The chronic disease which is no more considered as a public health problem by WHO has still not been eradicated completely from India.
The Hindu
The Health Department has strengthened its leprosy control programme on account of the increasing population of migrant labourers in the State, the Health Minister, V.S. Sivakumar, said.
Sydney Morning HeraldNew Delhi
In the male leprosy ward at Shahdara Hospital in east Delhi, no one is aware that World Leprosy Day is on January 31. The ward wears the same bleak look as on any other day.
The Hindu
Disclosing this at a programme conducted in connection with the National Anti-Leprosy Day at the Government General Hospital here on Saturday, Collector Yogitha Rana said that about 130 leprosy patients, who were detected to be suffering from eye ...
The Hindu
Flagging off a two-wheeler awareness rally on the National Leprosy Eradication Day on Saturday, Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao highlighted the importance of getting medical attention during the preliminary stage itself.
The Hindu
Even today, after 15 years of living with leprosy, 30-year-old Karthik* still does not tell people what is wrong with his right foot. “I work with an IT company in Chennai now, and while the top management knows, my colleagues do not. If I tell them, I ...
International Business Times UK
Thousands of people every year are diagnosed with leprosy, a disease which many believe is extinct. Sunday marks World Leprosy Day, which aims to raise awareness of the debilitating disease and its impact on impoverished communities.
ABC Online
But contrary to assumptions that leprosy is extinct in the West, recent data from the Department of Health reveals there were 185 recorded cases in Australia in the past decade. There were 13 cases last year, according to the National Notifiable ...
Chandigarh Tribune
As many as 281 people suffering from leprosy have taken treatment at the Jalandhar Civil Hospital in the past five years. While from April 2015 until now, as many as 66 leprosy patients were treated, in 2012, 77 were treated, in 2013, 68 were treated ...
Lymphatic filariasis / Elephantiasis
Medgadget.com (blog)
The Drugs for Elephantiasis (Lymphatic Filariasis) market analysis is provided for the international markets including development trends, competitive landscape analysis, and key regions development status.
The New Indian Express
Children between one and two years of age would be covered under the programme in 10 districts with high prevalence of lymphatic filariasis where the mass drug administration (MDA) for the vector borne disease that includes albendazole is already in ...
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
Parasitic nodules that are deposited into the bodies of the victims during the biting metamorphose into either blindness agents or elephantiasis agents. Luckily, both these diseases, including the itchiness on the skin of victims respond positively to ...
Medgadget.com (blog)
The United States Drugs for Elephantiasis (Lymphatic Filariasis) Industry 2015 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the Drugs for Elephantiasis (Lymphatic Filariasis) industry.
Himalayan Times
... found in 80 people in the district, so far. A mass anti-filariasis medicine administration campaign has been conducted in the district to prevent this disease, Umesh Mehata, informed the Focal Person of the Elephantiasis Prevention Programme in the ...
The Guardian
Lepra works in India, Bangladesh and Mozambique to support people with leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and other neglected diseases. Operating in areas where people often live in extreme poverty, the NGO treats diseases and works to provide after-cure care.
Scroll.in
An example of an NTD is lymphatic filariasis – or, elephantiasis (or hathipaon in Hindi) as it is commonly referred to. Effective measures. It is against LF that India has been conducting a demonstrably successful campaign for a while now.
Onchocerciasis / River blindness
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
A community of about 800 inhabitants around the time of the Onchocerciasis Control Programmes's (OCP) campaign is now reduced to less than 50 persons. The prosperous market and vibrant entertainment spots that were then the envy of the other nearby ..
News Ghana
He said cost-effective interventions to reduce the burden of both conditions exist in all countries, revealing that the Region has onchocerciasis and trachoma, which causes blindness but are preventable. He said noted that this year, there would be ...
Rabies
Jefferson Post
FLEETWOOD-At least two people are being treated for exposure to rabies after being bitten last week by a rabid dog in Fleetwood. That's according to the Director of Ashe County Animal Control Joe Testerman.
NBC 10 Philadelphia
Officials are searching for an unidentified Good Samaritan who may have been exposed to rabies after saving a girl from a rabid raccoon. The girl was walking home from school Thursday around 4 p.m. through a wooded area on the Bridlewild Trail near ...
WJXT Jacksonville
GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. - A woman was bitten by a car that has tested positive for rabies, according to the Glynn County Health Department. The incident happened at the woman's home in the Highland Park area of Brunswick where she had been feeding the ...
Pakistan Observer
Friday, February 05, 2016 - Rabies is a viral illness spread by the saliva of an infected animal. Rabies is caused by a virus which infects the brain.
AllAfrica.com
The Federal Ministry of Health, on Thursday distributed 1,812 anti rabies vaccines to nine accredited faculties and colleges of veterinary medicine in the country. Mrs Ifeoma Anagbogu, Director, Neglected Tropical Disease in the ministry, who ...
Times of India
As per the medical history given by the victim's relatives, Virkhade did not take anti-rabies vaccination on the scheduled days. She was also not administered rabies immunoglobulin, a ready-made antibody which is extremely effective in deactivating the ...
Schistosomiasis (Schisto, Bilharzia, Snail Fever)
Business Wire (press release)
This report provides comprehensive information on the therapeutic development for Schistosomiasis, complete with comparative analysis at various stages, …
BMC Blogs Network
Schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) (hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides) are widely distributed in developing countries where they infect over 230 million and 1.5 billion people, respectively.
EurekAlert (press release)
MaxMind donates over 50 percent of its corporate profits to charities, funding high-impact, evidence-based programs. Schistosomiasis infects more than 200 million people worldwide.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Among the health issues are water-borne diseases such as dysentery, cholera and schistosomiasis, air-borne diseases and vector-borne diseases including Rift Valley fever and malaria. Other impacts of climate change sewer overflows, poor solid waste ...
Soil transmitted helminthiases (Ascaris lumbricoides, whipworm, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm, Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale)
Daily Star Gazette
He found that the most widely spread intestinal parasites in the Roman Empire were whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) and roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) which are transmitted by the contamination of food with feces.
Clinical Advisor
He underwent surgical exploration, during which a Meckel diverticulum was found and believed to be the culprit. Shortly following surgery, the patient vomited a roundworm, ascaris lumbricoides, and his small bowel obstruction was attributed to ascariasis.
Daily Mail
This is a photograph of a whipworm egg. Researcher explained that the abnormal forms of A1AT bind an antibody called immunoglobulin E (IgE) that evolved to protect people from worms.
Trachoma
GhanaWeb
He said cost-effective interventions to reduce the burden of both conditions exist in all countries, revealing that the Region has onchocerciasis and trachoma, which causes blindness but are preventable.
Other Neglected Conditions:
Venomous Snakebite
Perth Now
Janice Taylor is lucky to be alive after she was bitten by a deadly snake a week ago.
Bundaberg News Mail
A WOMAN has been airlifted from a property at St Agnes near Gin Gin after a snake bite early this morning. Heavy rain overnight meant road access to the rural property was cut off by flood waters and the RACQ CareFlight Rescue Chopper was required to ...
News24
Pietermaritzburg - A Mooi River farmer was rushed to hospital on Monday night after he was bitten by a venomous snake. The farmer, believed to be in his fifties, was bitten by the snake on Monday evening.
Ten Eyewitness News
QLD public hospitals falling Queensland public hospitals are failing to meet standards and the Australian Medical Association warns it's only going to get worse
Daijiworld.com
Karkala, Feb 1: A drunk snake catcher was bitten by a venomous snake recently near Gokul Compound in Kukkundoor village recently. /the deceased was Venkatesh (62) from Kukkundoor.
Strongyloidiasis
University of Bristol
Professor Mark Viney of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences and colleagues compared the genomes of four soil-transmitted nematodes (known as Strongyloides), including the human pathogen S. stercoralis, with a free-living relative (Rhabditophanes sp).
(The longing for "a reminder of the dangers of the global village)
ישראל היום
חולים מתים בארצנו או מגיעים לאשפוז בטיפול נמרץ עקב איחור באבחון מלריה, וכך קורה עקב חוסר אבחנה של זיהום בטפיל הנקרא סטרונגילוידס - Strongyloides. זה למעשה זיהום של פרזיט היכול להישאר שנים חבוי בגוף האדם וכשהחולה מקבל טיפול מדכא חיסון, הטפיל מתרבה באופן קיצוני עד למות ...
BLOGS:
Patheos (blog)
According to GFA's project giving reports for 2011-2013, donors have given $284,528 designated for leprosy ministry. However, only $36,600 has been reported on Indian government forms as being received in India during the same period. On the FC-6 form, ...
The Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog)
Medical experts have renewed calls for more pragmatic approach to checking the resurgence of leprosy, the development they describe as worrisome, especially in developing countries.
LCGC Chromatography Online (registration) (blog)
Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Aberdeen have identified disease markers for Human African Trypanosomiasis(HAT), commonly known as “sleeping sickness:…
The Standard Digital News (satire) (press release) (registration) (blog)
The symptoms of dengue fever include a high body temperature of up to 40°C, headache, nausea, vomiting, rash and pain in the eyes, joints, and muscles. In severe cases, symptoms may include intense stomach pain, repeated
Scicasts (press release) (blog)
That needs to change, says Christine Petersen, associate professor of epidemiology at the UI College of Public Health and corresponding author of the paper "A Mother's Gift: Congenital Transmission of Trypanosoma and Leishmania Species," which ...
Medgadget.com (blog)
The Drugs for Elephantiasis (Lymphatic Filariasis) market analysis is provided for the international markets including development trends, competitive landscape analysis, and key regions development status.
Medgadget.com (blog)
The Drugs For Schistosomiasis market analysis is provided for the international markets including development trends, competitive landscape analysis, and key regions development status.
BMC Blogs Network
Schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) (hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides) are widely distributed in developing countries where they infect over 230 million and 1.5 billion people, respectively.
Medgadget.com (blog)
ReportBazzar has announced a new report titled “Global Drugs for Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) Industry 2015 Market Research Report “To their offerings.
Blog Tâm Sự (lời tuyên bố phát cho các báo) (Blog)
Một trong số đó là ấu trùng sán lợn Cysticercosis, sán dây lợn Taeniasolium và sán dây bò Taeniasaginata. Loài sán dây này trưởng thành có thể dài từ 4 đến 12 mét, có khoảng 1000 đốt và thường kí sinh ở ruột non. Người mắc phải sán dây có triệu chứng ...
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Articles
by The PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Articles
by Peter D. Ziniel, Bhargava Karumudi, Andrew H. Barnard, Ethan M. S. Fisher, Gregory R. J. Thatcher, Larissa M. Podust, David L. Williams
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Articles
by Pradyot Bhattacharya, Smriti Ghosh, Sarfaraz Ahmad Ejazi, Mehebubar Rahaman, Krishna Pandey, Vidya Nand Ravi Das, Pradeep Das, Rama Prosad Goswami, Bibhuti Saha, Nahid Ali
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Online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats.
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