Congressional Budget Office
H.R. 1797, End Neglected Tropical Diseases Act. February 17, 2016. Cost Estimate. As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs ...
Business Wire (press release)
Also concerning is the slash in funding for Tuberculosis and NeglectedTropical Diseases in the midst of the Zika virus outbreak, which the World Health Organization promptly declared a 'Public Health Emergency of International Concern'.
CNN
The other two species are Anopheles, which carries malaria, elephantiasisand encephalitis and Culex which carries encephalitis, elephantiasis and West Nile virus. "The Aedes Aegypti didn't exist in the Americas until the 16th century.
The Indian Express
Mosquito-borne illnesses also include West Nile virus, elephantiasis, yellow fever and others but these infections are normally restricted to certain geographic areas. For instance dengue hemorrhagic fever is a viral, mosquito borne illness usually ...
Nikkei Asian Review
In Southeast Asia, 850 million people are at risk of contracting lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis. This is a painful and disfiguring disease that can lead to temporary or permanent disability.
Mail & Guardian Africa
...amp; Guardian AfricaCommunity engagement was also key in Togo's successful elimination of lymphatic lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, in 2010, the first country in the WHO African Region to do so.
Buruli Ulcer / Mycobacterium ulcerans
Laufen und rollen für Togo (Running and rolling for Togo)
Main-Post
Der Erlös des JSG soll im westafrikanischen Togo für Behandlung und Bekämpfung von Tuberkulose, Lepra und Buruli Ulcer eingesetzt werden, deren Erreger verwandt sind. Buruli Ulcer, auch „kleine Schwester der Lepra“ genannt, ist eine infektiöse ...
Afrique : Buruli, une maladie tropicale négligée (Africa: Buruli, a neglected tropical disease)
Le Monde
L'affection dont souffre le petit garçon n'est pas une plaie banale mais un ulcère de Buruli (UB), du nom d'une région de l'Ouganda où la maladie a été décrite dans les années 1950.
Ulcère de Buruli : une composante génétique en jeu (Buruli ulcer: a genetic component involved)
Le Monde
Pour Laurent Marsollier (Inserm), l'ulcère de Buruli (UB) constitue « une aventure scientifique, où tout est à faire ». Expert sur les questions d'environnement de la bactérie, Laurent Marsollier est allé, en 2008, chercher une complémentarité d ...
Chagas disease / American trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma cruzi, T. cruzi)
KHTS Radio
For the past eight years, Providence Health & Services has teamed with the Center of Excellence for Chagas Disease at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar to screen for chagas. UCLA cardiologist Sheba Meymandi, M.D., program director, believes ...
ÚltimaHora.com
... techos de paja y zinc duermen si los dejan las vinchucas –esos insectos que al alimentarse de la sangre de un individuo sano, defecan sobre la piel de la víctima y depositan gran cantidad de parásitos Trypanosoma cruzi, que causan el mal de Chagas–.
Outbreak News Today
Background. Trypanosoma is a genus of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa. Trypanosome brucei spp. and Trypanosoma cruzi are the major agents of human trypanosomiasis; other Trypanosoma spp. can cause human disease, but are rare.
Dengue
Outbreak News Today
The El Niño weather phenomenon is the likely driver of the unusual high incidence of dengue cases at the start of 2016, outside of the typical dengue season. Studies have shown that El Niño events drive up the incidence of dengue on the global and ...
Yahoo News
Santiago (AFP) - Chile's remote Easter Island over the past two weeks has seen a dramatic increase in dengue, with a total now of 16 confirmed cases, including one serious enough to require hospitalization.
Jamaica Observer
As at the week ending February 20, 2016, there were 23 cases of dengue diagnosed, resulting from the ministry's increased active surveillance for the Zika virus (ZIKV). The Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same mosquito that transmits chikungunya and ZIKV, ...
AsiaOne
Dengue is a constant threat and the number of reported cases has been steadily climbing. A total of 63,198 dengue cases were reported in Selangor last year. This year as at Feb 2, there are already 7,335 dengue cases in the state which is unusually ...
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
As of 1 p.m. Friday (Feb 19) the Department of Health reported two new confirmed cases of Dengue Fever. The total number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak is 259. These cases include 234 residents and 25 visitors.
Honolulu Civil Beat
Ige did not even mention the word “dengue,” which I thought was odd. Is there a reason for this? Does the word “Zika” portend bigger bucks from the feds? As director of the state Health Department, Dr. Virginia Pressler needs to convince Hawaii Island ...
Inverse
Scientists may have developed a way to end the spread of the Zika virus and dengue fever — by pumping disease-carrying mosquitos full of bacteria. A new study published in PLoS Pathogens reports a newly developed strain of Aedes aegypti —
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: At least 19 more dengue patients were confirmed in the province, including 17 in Karachi, last week, taking the total number of patients to 219 since January this year. In a review meeting chaired by Sindh health minister Jam Mehtab Hussain ...
Novinite.com
The Brazilian Health Ministry has warned that there was "a very serious outbreak" of diseases caused by viruses carried by the Aedis Aegypti mosquito species, particularly Zika, dengue fever and a similar disease, chikungunya, the Foreign Ministry in ...
PRI
So how we have been fighting the battle against dengue could predict our odds of winning the battle against Zika. From the chart above, chances are pretty slim. Although we have identified Aedes aegypti as dengue vector as early as 1906, the disease ...
The Straits Times
However, it has been shown to be effective in reducing the seriousness of the illness once someone is infected with dengue, regardless of the dengue strain (there are four strains of dengue virus).
Big Island Now
Representative Tulsi Gabbard hosted a roundtable with local, national, and international experts in both dengue fever and zika virus research, readiness, and response on Thursday.
Gov.sg (press release)
The ongoing El Nino phenomenon, along with a change in the type of dengue virus circulating among Singapore's population, have led the authorities to forecast a historic high of 30,000 dengue cases this year, nearly a third higher than the previous ..
ABC Online
CAMERON SIMMONS: We always considered the possibility even if it's a small possibility that dengue viruses might evolve resistance against wolbachia and so what we wanted to do was to create an insurance policy that we could have in our back pocket to ...
Big Island Now
After two days of no new confirmed dengue fever cases on the Big Island, the count rose by two on Thursday. The total number of confirmed cases of dengue on the Big Island has risen to 258, with three of those cases listed as “potentially infectious ...
The Japan Times
BRASILIA/SANTIAGO – Top U.S. and Brazilian medical experts met on Thursday to launch a research partnership to find a vaccine against the Zika virus that has spread rapidly through the Americas since it first appeared in the hemisphere last year ...
The Straits Times
A perfect storm of factors threatens to push dengue cases here to a high of over 30,000 this year, but the authorities are not standing by idly. The National Environment Agency (NEA), Ministry of Health (MOH) and People's Association (PA) aim to ...
The Straits Times
With dengue cases here threatening to exceed the record 22,000 infections in 2013, it is time for Singaporeans to step up and get serious about tackling the mosquito problem. The Government is already pulling out all the stops to keep the dengue ...
ABC Online
Journal PLOS Pathogens reports on the development in the lab of an Aedes aegypti strain of mosquito that has been infected with two types of Wolbachia — a bacterium that can reduce the risk of dengue spreading to humans. The "super-infected" mosquito ..
Yahoo News
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's health ministry is reporting 10 new cases of dengue on Easter Island. The ministry says that eight adults and two minors from the same family have been infected but are recovering.
New Straits Times Online
ALOR STAR: The reported number of dengue fever cases in Kedah shows a decrease to only 10 cases on the sixth week (from Feb 7 to 13) compared to 31 cases in the previous week (Jan 31 to Feb 6).
West Hawaii Today
More than 30 volunteers, health workers and Civil Defense personnel spent Wednesday morning pounding pavement in Kailua Village, searching for standing water and educating entrepreneurs, residents and visitors on the dengue outbreak.
Big Island Video News
The Department of Health, Civil Defense, Community Emergency Response Teams, and community partners will be conducting the door-to-door outreach in the area that was recently designated a high risk zone for contracting dengue fever from infected ...
The Star Online
JOHOR BARU: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has successfully formulated a plant-based supplement from papaya leaf extract and virgin coconut oil to treat dengue patients. What's more is that the product also has the potential to treat patients ...
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: The number of dengue cases in Singapore this year may exceed 30,000, higher than the record of 22,170 reported in 2013, the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Thursday (Feb 18). This is due to factors ...
West Hawaii Today
For a second day in a row, no cases of dengue fever were identified on the Big Island, health officials said Wednesday. Currently, just one of the 256 confirmed cases remain potentially infectious to mosquitoes, according to the state Department of Health.
Bangkok Post
A new dengue fever vaccine, which Thai scientists helped develop, is now in the process of being registered in Thailand. Jarung Muangchana, director of the National Vaccine Institute (NVI), yesterday said the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is ...
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The steep rise in socio-economic burden due to vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria, chikungunya, and Zika has prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to ask member countries, including India, to focus on mosquito control.
STAT
Instead, some researchers are theorizing that Zika is contributing to an unexpectedly high rate of side effects because it is spreading in a population in which a large number of people have been previously infected with a closely related virus, dengue.
New York Times
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina is grappling with its worst outbreak of dengue in seven years as the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which also transmit the Zika virus, expands in the subtropical northeast of the country.
MIT Technology Review
Inside the Mosquito Factory That Could Stop Dengue and Zika. Genetically modified mosquitoes seem to stop the spread of disease—but will Brazil, or anyone else, pay for them? by Flavio Devienne Ferreira; February 17, 2016. Sponsored by. At 7 A.M.
Firstpost
"IMA suggests that India consider the model adopted by Brazil to raise awareness on Zika virus for its fight against dengue. Educating and raising awareness is an integral part of the Brazil model.
Sun.Star
THE Department of Health (DOH) 7 reported that the number of dengue cases and fatalities in Central Visayas increased so far this year compared to the same period last year.
Manila Bulletin
Trece Martires, Cavite – The Cavite Provincial Health Office (PHO) set in motion a tougher, more comprehensive action plan against dengue as three new deaths were reported in the province this year.
Big Island Now
The Dengue Education and Community Outreach Operation is a proactive and preventative effort to inform residents, visitors, and businesses in the Kailua-Kona area about ways to reduce exposure to dengue and to promote the “Fight the Bite” campaign, ...
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
As of 1 p.m. Tuesday (Feb 16) the Department of Health reported no new confirmed cases of Dengue Fever. The total number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak is 256. These cases include 232 residents and 24 visitors.
The Star Online
SHAH ALAM: Two Selangor executive councillors are among 20 people to appear before a public hearing on the dengue menace in the state. Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) chairperson Hannah Yeoh said the ...
Red and Black
Scott said one of the strains leads to fever, frontal headache, and nausea and vomiting, among other symptoms, while the another can lead to dengue shock syndrome, which causes the capillaries in the lungs to leak and can lead to death if not treated.
The Star Online
LABOURER Ramli Ibrahim is worried for his daughter-in-law and five grandchildren, after his son Mohd Raffie Ramli died of dengue last month. Ramli, 60, said there were two deaths caused by dengue at the People's Housing Project (PPR) flats in Ampang ...
The Hindu
Six cases of dengue were detected in the Payyannikal-Kattakal region here on Tuesday, and substantial presence of Aedes egypti mosquitoes that transmit the disease-causing flavivirus was found in that area, senior biologist at district vector control ...
Big Island Now
No new dengue fever cases have been confirmed on the Big Island since Monday, with the total number of cases since September resting at 256. On Monday, the count rose by one, with two listed by the Hawai'i Department of Health as “potentially infectious.
West Hawaii Today
KAILUA-KONA — Door-to-door dengue education outreach will begin in the Kailua-Kona area on Wednesday, Hawaii County officials said Tuesday. State Department of Health, Civil Defense, Community Emergency Response Teams, and community ...
Journal Times
RACINE — SC Johnson announced Tuesday that, considering the rising global outbreak of Zika virus, the company will donate at least $15 million over the next year to provide products to help needy families combat the mosquitoes that may carry the ..
Big Island Now
At 10 a.m. on Thursday, Representative Gabbard will host a roundtable discussion with national and Hawai'i academic experts on elimination and prevention of dengue fever and protection from the Zika virus at the University of Hawai'i John A. Burns ...
Medical Xpress
Like Zika virus, dengue fever is spread to people through mosquito bites. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says dengue fever is a leading cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics, with as many as 400 million people ...
Phuket Gazette
Phuket hospitals have reported a rise in dengue fever cases this year.
West Hawaii Today
Hawaii County's confirmed dengue fever case count inched up Monday with one new case of the illness confirmed on the Big Island. The official case count now stands at 256, according to the state Department of Health.
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - The total number of dengue cases fell further to 421 in the week from Feb 7 to 13, according to the latest figures released by the National Environment Agency (NEA).
The Star Online
They were first briefed by Kota Anggerik assemblyman Yaakob Sapari who highlighted that there had been 13 deaths from dengue in Selangor so far this year. He urged residents to inspect their homes for mosquito breeding grounds.
Maui Now
Governor David Ige today signed an emergency proclamation as a preventive measure against mosquito borne illnesses that include dengue fever and Zika. This follows the recent decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to open its ...
Bloody Elbow
A sudden case of Dengue fever has forced John Lineker to pull out of his bout againstCody Garbrandt on February 21, as Portal do Vale Tudo reported.
The Brazilian government has been strongly campaigning for people to protect themselves from the mosquito which carries the disease and two others (The Zika virus and Chikungunya virus) as an epydemy has been going on in the country since last year.
KHON2
The state Dept. of Health said on Friday, Feb. 12, that one new case of dengue fever has been identified on Hawaii Island since Thursday, Feb. 11, bringing the total to 255. One case is potentially infectious to mosquitoes (illness onset 2/6/16) while ...
Outbreak News Today
New numbers from the Malaysia Health Ministry, or the Kementerian Kesihatan show that since the beginning of the year, the country has reported nearly 20,000 dengue fever cases to date.
Travel Weekly
Shane Nelson Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) officials were quick to support the dengue fever state of emergency proclamation made by Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi on Feb. 8, but the Aloha State's tourism marketing organization doesn't want visitors ...
Times of India
The number of dengue cases has increased considerably in February. "We had recorded 62 suspected cases and 27 confirmed cases in January. The number rose to 73 suspected cases and 30 confirmed cases of dengue till February 14," said a health ...
InterAksyon
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines -- The health department in the Cordillera said it has recorded 464 cases of dengue in the first two months of the year, an 88-percent increase over the same period last year. Dr. Alexie Marrero, head of the office on ...
Radio New Zealand
Fiji has cancelled a flood warning for all low-lying areas along the Rakiraki River, but is warning to avoid mosquitos as 12 new cases of dengue fever emerge. Fiji has cancelled a flood warning for all low-lying areas along the Rakiraki River, but is ...
The Straits Times
National swimmer Danny Yeo's hopes of a good showing at next month's Singapore National Age Group (Snag) Championships, the last local qualifier for the Olympics, have taken a hit after he was stricken with dengue fever. The 25-year-old was diagnosed ...
Inquirer.net
KORONADAL CITY—A town in South Cotabato province had been placed under a state of calamity after two residents died of dengue fever and 33 others were diagnosed of the disease, local officials said on Saturday.
Fox News
HONOLULU – Hawaii Gov. David Ige declared a state of emergency to fight mosquito borne illnesses including dengue fever and the Zika virus. The state has been in the midst of a dengue fever outbreak on Hawaii's Big Island, where there were more than ...
Free Press Journal
Mumbai : The state has reported 174 dengue cases and zero deaths in January this year, of which nearly 25 cases have been reported from Mumbai. The data was revealed by State Surveillance Officer, Dr Pradip Awate while speaking at the 17th ...
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
Unattended lands – some of them purchased as investments with the owners living overseas – have also turned be one of the main mosquito breeding grounds contributing to the spread of dengue, the Public Health Inspectors' Union) said.
Leishmaniasis
Nature.com
For example, genes are post-transcriptionally processed from polycistronic transcription units and contain a hypermodified base, base J (β-D-glucosyl-hydroxymethyluracil), that demarcates the sites of transcription initiation and termination.
ProMED-mail post
[Cutaneous] leishmaniasis disease is soaring in tehsil [sub-district] Landi Kotal [in Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas/FATA], and ...
Leprosy / Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae, M. leprae)
The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka
The Minister said 1,748 new leprosy patients were detected in Sri Lanka by November last year and out of that 42 percent or 738 patients were from the Western Province while 338 patients were from the Colombo district.
WND.com(MD)
Leprosy, an infectious disease that was once so feared that patients were isolated in remote colonies, has emerged in the US Southeast. Writing in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) December 2015 Emerging Infectious Diseases, ...
Awareness Times
Sierra Leone on Tuesday February 2, 2016 joined other countries the world over to commemorate the 63rd World Leprosy Day on the theme: "Take action against Stigma and Discrimination Now! Prevent Transmission of Leprosy in Children"
Business Standard
The Sri Lankan government on Friday vowed to control the spread of HIV/AIDS and leprosy which is on the rise in the island nation. Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the objective of the government was to lower the disease prevalence in five years, ...
AfricaNews
A health centre in Balaka, eastern Malawi has taken in 21 people shunned by their communities because they have Leprosy – a chronic infectious disease that causes disfiguring skin ulcers and nerve damage in the arms and legs.
New Zealand Herald
Agrani Ratnayake, pictured at monkey temple in Kathmandu, spent 10 days in Nepal connecting with leprosy patients. After spending 10 days in a country where leprosy runs riot, a budding Hawke's Bay doctor has been inspired to fight back against the ...
\Waikato Times
Meg, 21, was one of eight New Zealanders who spent two weeks in Nepal as a Leprosy New Zealand Mission youth advocate. They applied for the 2016 youth advocacy scholarships late last year, and met for the first time at Auckland Airport on their way out ...
Independent Catholic News
The extent of social stigma of leprosy in India has been laid bare as details emerge of a 70 year old man whose son was allegedly forced to cremate his father by setting ablaze his hut, which goes against all normal funeral practices in India.
Asahi Shimbun
KUMAMOTO--Family members of former leprosy patients filed their first group lawsuit against the government over its decades-long policy of segregating Hansen's disease sufferers from society. In the lawsuit filed with the Kumamoto District Court on Feb.
AllAfrica.com
The ministry of health is considering certificates for people cured of leprosy to be able to return to society without facing discrimination or marginalisation. Speaking during a visit to Alheri, an independent community of people affected by leprosy ...
Avenue Mail
Jamshedpur, Feb. 14: Team Republican Challenge celebrated Valentine's Day with the leprosy patients at Birsa Ashram in Burmamines on Sunday. The day started with cleaning the garden and planting trees at the ashram campus.
Nyasa Times
Dan Kwacha, skin disease and leprosy officer at the district hospital confirmed that eight people are now on leprosy treatment. He said the number can go up as some people might be suffering from the disease but might not know the signs and symptoms of ...
Lymphatic filariasis / Elephantiasis
GhanaWeb
Five cases of elephantiasis were seen in the Dormaa Central Municipality, last year, the Disease Control Officer, Mr. Kwame Owusu-Amponsah, has announced. Speaking at an annual performance review meeting of the municipal health directorate…
Financial Express Bangladesh
Bangladesh expects to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis within two years. Health officials say their campaign so far has successfully eradicated the menace from 18 out of 19 hyper endemic districts, reports BSS.
Onchocerciasis / River blindness
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
A community of about 800 inhabitants around the time of theOnchocerciasis 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 ..
Rabies
CU Columbia Spectator
The rabies virus has a well-deserved bad rap: It drives animals to a feral madness and can be deadly when transmitted to humans. But a collaboration including Columbia researchers at the Mind Brain and Behavior Institute is rehabilitating the deadly ...
Chandigarh Tribune
For minor wounds: If a bite barely breaks the skin and there's no danger of rabies, treat it as a minor wound. Wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water. Apply an antibiotic cream to prevent infection and cover the wound with a clean bandage.
Asbury Park Press
ABERDEEN - Two more people are undergoing preventative treatment after possibly being exposed to a dog that died of rabies earlier this month. Monmouth County Health Department is hosting a a free rabies clinic in Aberdeen Saturday for residents to get ...
Times of India
Three years ago, officials at Pasteur Institute of India, Coonor, a central government institute that manufactures anti-rabies vaccines, began investigations on why the district had no cases of rabies.
AgraNet (subscription)
The recently formed African Small CompanionAnimal Network (AFSCAN) is to receive the backing of one of South Africa'sleading veterinary scientists for its work in eradicating rabies from thecontinent.
New Era
China could soon be a partner in Namibia's ongoing quest to solve the mystery of how the uniquely Namibian rabies virus spread among the country's kudu.
Schistosomiasis (Schisto, Bilharzia, Snail Fever)
Jakarta Post
... would be warned not to use the water in the area to avoid being infected with worms known to cause schistosomiasis or “snail fever”
Phys.Org
The bilharzia-causing parasite, Schistosoma mansoni, first infected humans as they fished in lakes in East Africa and was spread, first to West Africa and then to the New World by slave traders in 16th-19th Centuries, genomics reveals.
SciDev.Net
Nampijja is investigating the cognitive effects of heavy schistosomiasis infection and its treatment in school-going children in rural fishing communities of Lake Victoria islands in Uganda.
Soil transmitted helminthiases (Ascaris lumbricoides, whipworm, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm, Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale)
Parasiten sollen Allergien und Krankheiten bekämpfen (Parasites to combat allergies and diseases)
az Langenthaler Tagblatt
«Würmer könnten helfen, dieses wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen», sagt Cris Constantinescu, Immunologe an der Universität Nottingham. Er leitet eine aktuelle Studie, in der MS-Patienten absichtlich mit dem HakenwurmNecator americanus infiziert ...
طرق العدوى بديدان الانكلستوما و اهم الاعراض (Methods of Hookworm Infection Worms and the Most Important Symptoms)
Almrsal.com
ديدان الانكلستوما أو الديدان الخطافية Hookworms من اخطر انواع العدوى التي تصيب الانسان و تتطفل عليه مثل ديدان الإنيميا لذلك هي من الطفليات يوجد نوعين شائعين هما Ancylostoma Duodenale وNecator Americanus تصيب احد انواع الانكلستوما ربع سكان العالم ، هي دودة اسطوانية تعرف قديمًا باسم الشصية تعيش بالأمعاء الدقيقة لكل من الانسان و الكلاب و القطط و لكن 90% من اعراض تلك الديدان تمر دون اعراض و تسبب فقر الدم ، تعيش الديدان في المناطق الحارة الرطبة بالعالم ، تدخل الديدان إلى الجسم من خلال الجلد فيما بين الاصابع للقدم الحافية و تتحرك عن طريق الأوردة مع تيار الدم حتى تصل إلى الرئتين من ثم تصل اليرقان فتصعد إلى الفم ليبتلعها الانسان و تستقر بالأمعاء الدقيقة .
Trachoma
Co.Exist
Trachoma is an eye disease that affects millions of people worldwide, in the worst cases leaving them irreversibly blind. The good news is that, if you catch it soon enough, it's a highly treatable.
AOP
The £10.6m Global Trachoma Mapping Project (GTMP) was launched in December 2012 and is the largest infectious disease survey to have been undertaken, with surveyors collecting data using Android smartphones from 2.6 million people across 29 ..
IT News Africa
...diseases found mostly in African countries such as elephantiasis, leprosy, polio, helminthiasis and trachoma are rife. Furthermore, there are not enough health workers, hospitals and ...
Humanosphere
With relatively cheap antibiotics and basic health care, trachoma can be easily prevented and cured – possibly even eradicated if everyone in need could be reached. Funding agencies, NGOs and pharmaceutical companies have long been willing to donate ...
Medical Xpress
Another clue to the workings of trachoma - the world's leading infectious cause of blindness - has been revealed in a new study published in BMC Infectious Diseases.
New Matilda
The National Trachoma and Eye Health Program looked into more than 100,000 eyes, around 60 per cent of them Aboriginal. In the late seventies, 27,000 people were treated for trachoma, a contagious eye disease that had stopped sending white ...
Yaws / Endemic treponematoses
The Atlantic
Syphilis is part of a category of diseases known as treponemal disease, a group that also includes yaws, a skin infection found in tropical parts of South America, Asia, and Africa; the Chiu Chiu skeleton, she says, could very well have been suffering ...
Other Neglected Conditions:
Venomous Snakebite
Guardian Liberty Voice
In a twist of fate as predictable as a Love Boat plot, Jamie Coots, a preacher in Kentucky who gained fame for handling snakes while leading services at his church, died on Saturday after a rattlesnake he was handling bit him on the right hand.
KYMA8
4% of snake bite cases occur between April and September, with peak incidence in July. It's important to prepare in advance. As the weather gets warmer snakes become more active, making bites more prevalent. Experts say it's crucial to be educated and ...
The Hindu
Yet another death due to snakebite was reported from the coastal mandal of Repalle. This time, a 50-year-old farmer, Ch. Prasad, who was threshing paddy in his farm, was bitten by a poisonous snake at about 5 a.m. on Monday, but by the time he was ..
SBS
“It's essential that all parents in Australia know the pressure and immobilisation first aid technique for treating a venomous snake bite. This is a really basic procedure, it's really easy to learn and it's an absolute life saver.
9news.com.au
Emergency services issue a warning after a young girl dies from brown snake bite. (AAP). FTBAPGL. Emergency services have issued a warning after the death of a young girl in northern New South Wales on Friday afternoon.
Gold Coast Bulletin
A 21-year-old man was taken to hospital yesterday after being bitten by a Red-bellied black snake at Springbrook. A MAN is lucky to be alive after being bitten by a Red-bellied black snake on the Gold Coast yesterday,.
BLOGS:
Medgadget.com (blog)
Dengue Fever Global 2016 Clinical Trials andReview, H2” provides an detailed overview of Dengue Fever scenario. Report includes top line data relating on Dengue Fever Global clinical trials scenario. This report on Dengue Fever also includes an review of ...
BMC Blogs Network (blog)
Schistosomiasis, the disease caused by three major Schistosome species of trematodes, affects 200 million people worldwide and causes a range of symptoms such as chronic anemia, fatigue, stunted growth and cognitive impairment.
Medgadget.com (blog)
This report provides comprehensive information on the therapeutic development for Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), complete with comparative analysis at various stages, therapeutics assessment by drug target, mechanism of action (MoA), ...
Scientific American (blog)
However, the trypanosome that causes sleeping sickeness – Trypanosomabrucei rhodesiense – produces a virulence factor that allows it to get around these defenses by binding to and neutralizing TLF.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Zijlstra EE.
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