Regulatory Focus
The priority review voucher program was created to incentivize R&D for products that treat rare pediatric diseases or neglected tropical diseases(NTD). Under the program, a company that gets a product approved for a rare pediatric disease or NTD can ...
We are excited to announce that Barbara Bush will give the keynote address at the second annual END7 Student Advocacy Day on Tuesday, March 1. Ms. Bush is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC). GHC is a leadership development organization focused on building the next generation of global health leaders.
Newswise (press release)
12 in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, scientists found changes in some traits of mosquitoes but no significant changes in yellow fever mosquitoes' susceptibility to dengue virus infection after exposure to Bti.
GenomeWeb
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – In a study appearing online today in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, researchers from the US and Uganda described two genetically distinct Yersinia pestis populations that they detected by scrutinizing human plague cases ...
NDTV
India's action complements WHO's ongoing battle against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), which though on the verge of elimination, continue to pose public health challenges in the South-East Asia Region, Singh said.
Houston Chronicle
For state representative, part 1Houston ChronicleSarah Davis was already working to prepare Texas for the growing threat of neglected tropical diseases. During the last legislative session, Davis authored and passed a bill to create a surveillance program for emerging diseases like the Zika virus ..
Kaiser Family Foundation
White House Releases FY17 Budget Request This budget summary highlights global health-related funding proposals contained in President Obama’s FY 2017 budget request released on Tuesday.
Medical Xpress
Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (James I Univeristy, UJI) have developed new compounds for the treatment of infectious tropical diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis.
Expert says Texas should devote resources toward developing vaccines for neglected tropical diseases
Medical Xpress
Neglected tropical diseases have become widespread in the United States, particularly in Texas, which has an opportunity to devote state resources toward developing vaccines for these afflictions, according to a tropical-disease policy expert at Rice ...
Daily Mail
LONDON, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The largest ever survey of an infectious disease has been completed, part of an effort to eliminate trachoma, a painful eye infection that can cause blindness, the international NGO Sightsavers says.
Kaiser Family Foundation
Funding for tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), nutrition, and vulnerable children, however, all declined compared to FY 2016.
Business Standard
The Union Health Minister stated that India shall be in the forefront of the war against Neglected Tropical Diseases. He informed that the Ministry had first launched National Deworming Day (NDD) in 2015 which was implemented in 11 States/UTs
Scientific Computing World (press release) (registration)
The World Health organisation (WHO) defines neglected tropical diseases, such as leishmaniasis, as 'a diverse group of communicable diseases that prevail in tropical and subtropical conditions in 149 countries and affect more than one billion people, ...
Business Weekly
Consortium partners are involved in projects to facilitate and speed up the development of therapies for the treatment of so-called neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, malaria, tuberculosis and paediatric HIV.
Sydney Morning Herald
The World Health Organisation has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be a global health emergency, suspecting a strong causal link between it and thousands of birth defects in Brazil.
Buruli Ulcer / Mycobacterium ulcerans
Le Figaro
Maladie du sommeil, maladie de Chagas, leishmanioses, ulcère de Buruli, onchocercose  Ces maladies tropicales négligées (MTN) affectent plus d'un milliard d'habitants dans le monde, principalement les populations les plus vulnérables, vivant dans ...
La Citta di Salerno
Qui è stato curato il maggior numero di pazienti affetti da ulcera di Buruli, devastante patologia infettiva. I testi del libro sono curati dal professore Enrico Di Salvo (ordinario di chirurgia generale presso la Federico II, dove dirige il centro ...
Chagas disease / American trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma cruzi, T. cruzi)
News-Medical.net
Humans can tolerate the parasites responsible for the sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis for many years. These parasites belong to the same family of pathogens known as trypanosomatids.
Texas Observer
Then, there's Chagas disease — transmitted by the T. cruzi parasite — which researchers estimate has infected 300,000 people in the United States, many in Texas. Called one of America's new plagues of poverty by Baylor's Peter Hotez, the disease over ...
Latinos Health
The transfer of the Chagas disease from bug to human can be complicated. The parasite is found in the bug's feces and would defecate on the person while it is feeding on his or her blood, usually when the host is asleep.
Cysticercosis / Taeniasis (Taenia solium, T. solium)
Medical Xpress
For the sleeping sickness in particular, it seems that certain populations living in endemic areas of Africa have developed a tolerance to the Trypanosoma brucei gambiense parasite. These mutations have most likely been instrumental in the natural ...
Newsroom America
These diseases are not household names — Chagas disease, cysticercosis, toxocariasis, toxoplasmosis and trichomoniasis — and also include viruses transmitted by mosquitoes, including dengue fever, the West Nile virus and, of recent heightened ...
Dengue
NOLA.com
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil on Friday reported a nearly 50 percent jump in cases of dengue fever reported over a three-week period in January, a worrying finding because the disease is carried by the same mosquito that spreads Zika.
La prensa
Brazil saw a 48.2 percent rise in the number of suspected cases of dengue fever last month compared with January 2015, the Health Ministry said Friday. Dengue, like the Zika and Chikungunya viruses, is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
OCRegister
Angelica Pereira holds her daughter Luiza, who was born with microcephaly, outside her house in Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Pernambuco state, Brazil on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. Brazil on Friday reported a nearly 50 percent jump in cases of dengue fever ...
Jakarta Post
SEMARANG: The Central Java Health Agency is calling on local residents to carry out communal efforts to eradicate mosquito breeding grounds in an effort to contain the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, including denguefever, chikungunya and Zika, ..
RT
But there is an ongoing outbreak of dengue fever at Big Island, where there were more than 250 confirmed cases. One of the major concerns now is that mosquitoes that can carry dengue fever also can carry the Zika virus, which potentially puts the ...
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
As of 1 p.m. Friday (Feb 12) the Department of Health reported no new confirmed cases of Dengue Fever. The total number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak rises to 255. These cases include 231 residents and 24 visitors.
Bitbag
An average of 220 Filipino get infected dengue in a day, according to the Department of Health. That is pretty common on Tropical countries, especially with the favorable weather conditions for the mosquitoes to spread. However, the country has shocked ..
The Star Online
Reportedly, there was also an increase of 11.2% in the number of dengue cases throughout last year, up from 108,698 in 2014 to 120,836 cases. This recent upsurge in dengue related incidents has sparked a debate on whose responsibility it is to fight ...
The Phnom Penh Post
This Friday, Cambodian-born and LA-based singer Chhom Nimol will take the stage in Phnom Penh, flanked by her five strikingly American bandmates and draped in shiny silk.
The Star Online
KLANG: Reported cases of dengue fever in Selangor are still high and there is no indication that the numbers will be decreasing soon. Selangor Health Department Vector Department deputy director Dr Sharifah Malihah Wan Mustapha said infection trend in ...
Washington Post
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil on Friday reported a nearly 50 percent jump in cases of dengue fever reported over a three-week period in January, a worrying finding because the disease is carried by the same mosquito that spreads the Zika virus.
Houston Chronicle
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: Not a single case of Zika virus has surfaced recently in Pakistan but there is a need for caution, especially for pregnant women, medical experts have warned.
The Express Tribune
KARACHI: At least 29 more dengue fever cases have been reported in Sindh this week, out of which 28 were reported from Karachi. As per the weekly report shared by the Dengue Prevention and Control Programme Sindh, as many as 29 new dengue fever ...
VICE News
It may have been overshadowed by Zika, the disease du jour, but a dengue outbreak has plagued Hawaii's Big Island since October 2015, afflicting over 250 people with fever, joint aches, and rash — the largest outbreak in the state's recent history.
Daily Mail
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian laboratories say delays in providing kits to test for mosquito-borne dengue have forced them to store patient blood samples until the kits are delivered.
Malaysiakini (subscription)
According to the Health Ministry, there was more than 50 percent jump in the number of deaths caused by dengue compared to 2014, the highest number of dengue deaths ever recorded in the country where 336 people - an average of 28 a month -
Big Island Now
Hawai'i Department of Health officials say two new cases have been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases since the outbreak began to 254. On Wednesday, no new cases were added to the count, with a total of three cases added to the list since ...
The Star OnlineWith the number of dengue cases on the rise in recent years, Contageo is a very timely app to help Malaysians track dengue hotspots and more importantly perhaps, educate the public by giving them a better understanding of how widespread the disease is ...
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. No other locally-acquired dengue fever cases have been ..
Big Island Video News
HAWAII ISLAND – The Waipi'o Valley Lookout will be closed tomorrow for mosquito spraying on Friday, as the number of confirmed cases of dengue fever counted on Hawaii Island reached 254 since the outbreak began in September 2015. Hawaii County ...
Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – The world's first ever dengue vaccine is now available in the country, and doctors in several private hospitals are providing the vaccine against the potentially deadly dengue virus, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the ...
Big Island Now
Efforts to combat the Big Island dengue fever outbreak were among the topics of discussion between Dr. Thomas Frieden, the Director for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and United States Senator Brian Schatz on Thursday.
Brisbane Times
A Queensland virologist has warned against losing sight of other mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue in the "hysteria" around the Zika virus.
KGBT-TV
With Tamaulipas tracking 11 cases of Dengue fever, local health departments have been monitoring mosquitoes along the border for the tropical disease -- and the Zika virus.
Pakistan Today
Provincial Minister for Health Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said on Thursday that the Sindh health department had taken concrete steps to curb spread of dengue fever and a comprehensive plan had been chalked out to launch spray against dengue at certain ...
New York Times
Stan Sandberg, a founder of TravelInsurance.com, says that travelers heading to a Zika- or dengue-affected area should purchase a plan with a Cancel for Any Reason (CFAR) option; RoamRight and Travel Insured International are two companies that offer ...
Philippine Star
During the official launch of the vaccine on Thursday, Sanofi Pasteur Country Manager Ching Santos said the doses of dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia arrived in the country last week and was available since Wednesday.
GMA News
The world's first tetravalent dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, is set to roll out nationwide in hospitals across the Philippines. "The Philippines has been at the forefront of the development (of this vaccine)," said Dr. Rose Capeding, head of the Department ...
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: A total of 530 dengue cases were reported in the week ending Feb 6, 95 cases fewer than the previous week but still “much higher than usual”, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on its website. A total of 3,104 dengue cases have ...
Big Island Video News
The Hawaii Department of Health released the new map on Wednesday, along with a statement saying there were no new cases of dengue fever reported on Hawaii Island today. The number of confirmed cases tallied since the outbreak began in September ...
Radio New Zealand
A regency in Indonesia's Papua province has declared a state of emergency over a dengue outbreak. The Jakarta Post reports that the declaration by the administration in Mappi regency came after 12 local people tested positive for the mosquito-borne …
The Star Online
KUANTAN: Residents of two neighbourhoods near here are blaming a treatment plant under construction for a spate of dengue cases in their area. Lorry driver P. Paramasivam, 30, who has just recovered from a bout of dengue, said he never had dengue ...
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
As of 1 p.m. Wednesday (Feb 10) the Department of Health reported no new confirmed cases of Dengue Fever. The total number of confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak remains at 252.
The Express Tribune
LAHORE: The Health Department has issued a dengue alert as the weather has become hospitable for mosquito breeding. “People must take all precautionary steps and cover all water containers to prevent mosquitoes from accessing water,” Akhlaq Ali Khan ...
Outbreak News Today
The “preliminary” final numbers are finally out and the Philippines saw an increase in dengue fever of nearly 65 percent in 2015 compared to the prior year. Through Dec. 31, the archipelago reported 200,415 suspected cases of dengue, including 598 deaths.
The Express Tribune
“Dengue is not fatal, it is potentially a curable disease and deaths due to dengue could be negligence,” he said addressing a symposium. Dengue Expert Advisory Group (DEAG) Islamabad chapter has been established in PIMS to help eradicate the disease ...
BioPharma Dive
Both dengue and zika are from the same flavivirus family, and share similar symptoms and transmission vectors. This relationship may help Sanofi jumpstart its development process.
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: A 67-year-old Singaporean man died from dengue on Wednesday (Feb 10), the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Ministry of Health (MOH) announced in a joint press release. He was admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Monday and ..
Jakarta Post
Outbreak: Children receive medical treatment for dengue in a hospital. Several areas across Indonesia, including Papua, have reported a growing number of dengue cases in the last several weeks.
Outbreak News Today
Health authorities in Thailand are reporting the first dengue-related fatality in the country. According to a Bureau of Epidemiology update, through Feb. 8, Thailand has reported a total of 6667 cases from 76 provinces, including the one death. Image/CIA.
The Official Government News Portal of Sri LankaOver 5,000 dengue related cases and 08 deaths were reported last month. In the year 2015, a total of 29,000 dengue related cases and 56 deaths have been reported.
KHON2
The state Dept. of Health said on Tuesday, Feb. 9, that one new case of dengue fever has been identified on Hawaii Island since Monday, Feb. 8, bringing the total to 252.
Times of India
If the public fail to eliminate mosquito breeding spots within their house premises, then the outbreak of dengue haemorrhage or shock syndrome leading to deaths cannot be averted in the district," said S Vinod, senior biologist, DVCU.
STAT
Hawaii has declared a state of emergency on its Big Island as it battles the local spread of dengue fever, a disease outbreak that experts think may foreshadow how Zika virus transmission might occur in parts of the United States.
Big Island Now
All Hawai'i High School Athletic Association state tournaments on the Big Island will go on as planned, despite Monday's emergency proclamation on the dengue fever outbreak by Hawai'i County Mayor Billy Kenoi.
Times of India
MUMBAI: Climatic scientists fear that the extreme intense El Nino this year will bring about a dengue epidemic in early 2016. The El Nino -dengue effect will be worst in Southeast Asia, said a new study published in the Proceedings of the National ...
Buenos Aires Herald
The heavy rains anticipated in the north and central zones of the country could exacerbate the already severe outbreak of dengue fever in the country, the government said yesterday, just 24 hours after conceding that the widespread fumigation measures ...
Reuters
The mayor of Hawaii's Big Island declared a state of emergency on Monday to deal with a growing outbreak of dengue fever, spread by infected mosquitoes, with 250 cases confirmed over the past four months.
Woodinville Northwest News
SpringStar, Inc, a Woodinville biotech company, has stepped up their efforts to fight against mosquitoes that transmit Zika. The company's Mosquito Trap-N-Kill, the only EPA-registered trap of its type, targets mosquitoes that spread Zika and dengue fever.
Jakarta Post
Helmi stressed that the government in cooperation with various stakeholders was intensifying its effort to curb the spread of dengue fever by carrying out fogging activities in residential areas and eliminating mosquito nests so that the mosquitoes ...
New Straits Times Online
THE first month of the year didn't start of well for the country: dengue cases have kept increasing at an alarming rate, making the outbreak a national concern. As a result, many patients have tested positive for dengue and, worse, several fatalities ...
Medical Xpress
Now a team of Dutch investigators has data suggesting that a protein in dengue virus that goes by the scientific name, NS4B, would make a promising target for antiviral drug development.
Infection Control Today
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden help assess the risk that Zika will spread to Europe by describing the transmission season, areas at risk and intervention strategies.
Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has cautioned the people about the importance of keeping their surroundings clean as the dengue menace continued to be a threat and had claimed the lives of eight people in the first five weeks of ...
The News International
The district health departments in the region including Islamabad Capital Territory Health Department and district health department Rawalpindi are planning to launch a special surveillance campaign for identification and elimination of larvae of ...
Philippine Star
It has also developed diagnostic kits for tuberculosis, salmonella, chikungunya, influenza, malaria, and schistosomiasis,” he said. UP Manila chancellor Carmencita David-Padilla said Destura's new kits would be decided on for approval this month.
New Straits Times Online
From Jan 1 till yesterday, more than 800 dengue cases have been reported in Terengganu, an increase of 265.3 per cent as compared to 219 cases for the same period last year. Terengganu has been one of the worst hit states of dengue outbreaks this year.
Al-ArabiyaSaudi Arabia faces a bigger threat from dengue fever than from the Zika virus which is sweeping through Latin America, according to experts in the field. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus.
Jakarta Post
Meanwhile, the head of the blood transfusion unit at the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) in Padang, Widiarman, said on Friday there was an extreme shortage of blood supply, which could complicate efforts to tackle dengue.
The Star Online
KUALA TERENGGANU: All the awareness programmes and reminders on the dangers of dengue and the need for parents to get their family members checked at the slightest symptoms have mostly fallen on deaf ears.
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia faces a bigger threat from dengue fever than from the Zika virus which is sweeping through Latin America, according to experts in the field. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus.
Dracunculiasis / Guinea worm
Nature.com
Last year, just 22 people in 4 countries in sub-Saharan Africa had Guinea-worm disease, compared with the 3.5 million who suffered the parasitic infection in one year in the mid-1980s, when the non-profit Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, began to ...
Daily Mail
The app developed for the trachoma survey is also being trialled for gathering information about other diseases on WHO's list, including schistosomiasis, yaws, soil-transmitted helminth infections and guinea worm disease.
The Economist
Going, going… “…[Former U.S. President Jimmy] Carter says he hopes to outlive the last Guinea worm. Though he is now 91, that is a plausible ambition. All 22 of the worms that were recorded last year have now emerged, and are dead.
International Business Times UK
The 91-year-old is seeking to eradicate dracunculiasis, which is still found in countries such as South Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia and Chad. ...
Human African trypanosomiasis / Sleeping sickness
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences News
“Our laboratory has shown that there are critically important differences in the process of ribosome formation in the parasitic organism we study, Trypanosoma brucei, the organism that causes African sleeping sickness,” Williams says. Williams says the ...
News-Medical.net
Humans can tolerate the parasites responsible for the sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis for many years. These parasites belong to the same family of pathogens known as trypanosomatids.
Manitoba Co-operator
An unusual sex life may spell the extinction of the deadly African sleeping sickness parasite, which threatens millions of people in West and Central Africa, an international team of scientists said Jan. 27.
Leishmaniasis
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.49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 Preliminary studies suggest that McCb is associated ...
Nanotechnology News (press release)
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 ...
Healio
They found that pentavalent antimonials were associated with high toxicity and achieved a cure rate between 52% and 87% for Leishmania major, and 41% to 55% for L. donovani.
Leprosy / Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae, M. leprae
Daily Trust
Speaking during a visit to Alheri, an independent community of people affected by leprosy sited in Yangoji, minister of state for health, Osagie Ehanire, said he would advocate for certificates to be issued to those cured “to ease social re-integration ...
The Hindu
The Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed the eviction of persons affected with leprosy, who are bona fide residents of Tahirpur Leprosy Complex in East Delhi, following the blanket notices served on about 500 families by the Delhi government's Social ...
Times of India
RAIPUR/BILASPUR: While India claimed to have eradicated leprosy, social stigma and discrimination remains. In a horror story from interiors of Chhattisgarh, social stigma forced a son to cremate his father by setting ablaze his own house built in ...
The Indian Express
Coming to the rescue of leprosy affected persons (LAPs) living in the Tahirpur complex, the Delhi High Court Thursday issued a stay on the demolition of alleged “unauthorised construction” in the area.
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 marginalization. Speaking during a visit to Alheri, an independent community of people affected by leprosy ...
The Indian Express
Delhi HC to hear plea by leprosy-afflicted persons over illegal construction. A group of 268 families, who are all residents of the Tahirpur complex, have sought "sympathetic consideration" from the authorities, on grounds that they were suffering from ...
Daily Trust
The ministry of health is considering certificates for people cured of leprosy to be able to return to society without facing discrimination or marginalization. Speaking during a visit to Alheri, an independent community of people affected by leprosy ...
The Hindu
The two-week long events in connection with the World Leprosy Eradication Day under the aegis of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme culminated with rally here on Tuesday.
ANTARA
Paringin, South Kalimantan (ANTARA News) - Cases of leprosy continue to increase in Balangan district, South Kalimantan, according to local Health Office Chief Humam Arifin.
Times of India
Wardha: Vice- President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari presented the 'International Gandhi Award for Leprosy 2015' to Dr R K Mutatkar and Dr Arturo Cunanan Jr for their outstanding contribution in the field of leprosy at Uprashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Outbreak News Today
After reporting 27 confirmed leprosy, or Hansen's disease cases in 2015, significantly higher than the average of 10 cases seen most years, the start of 2016 appears to be a continuation of last year as Florida health officials report seeing five ...
Pulse.com.gh
Mr. Jackson Kofi Nyarko, a panel member of the tropical Neglected Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO) bemoaned how disabled persons were treated in the country and called on Governments to offer help that seeks to empower them.
Himalayan Times
JHAPA: As many as 7,650 people were found suffering from leprosy in Jhapa till date. Of them, 7, 140 were administered leprosy medicine, according to District Public Health Office, Jhapa. The district had reported 196 new leprosy cases last year.\
Pulse.com.gh
Ghana has reached the eradication stage in the fight against leprosy, Dr. Ekow Amankrah-Otabir, National Programme Manager of Leprosy, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has disclosed. With more than 40,000 registered cases in the country around 1948, …
Malay Mail Online
For 65-year-old Ooi Lok Seng, Chinese New Year was always celebrated with his friends at the Leprosy Control Centre wards.
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.
Lymphatic filariasis / Elephantiasis
Irish America
He and his colleague, Professor Satoshi Omura, shared this year's award for their work in discovering Ivermectin, which has drastically reduced occurrences of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis (commonly known as elephantiasis tropica), among ...
The Malaysian Insider
This will also help control mosquitos that spread potentially deadly diseases such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis and Japanese encephalitis.
Governance Now
It is one of the seven most common neglected tropical diseases in the world and is endemic in 73 countries affecting 120 million people. In India, which has been running a national lymphatic filariasis control programme since 1955, the disease still ...
CNN
This strategy is known as mass drug administration and is an approach used to control a range of infectious diseases including hookworm and elephantiasis.
Regal Tribune
These insects also spread parasites which develop filariasis and elephantiasis that also cause death among people. Mankind has been trying to fight mosquitoes for years using various type of products which may eradicate the insect.
Jamaica Gleaner
The insects also transmit the parasites responsible for filariasis or elephantiasis, a condition which can cause gross swelling deformities of the lower limbs and genitalia, in addition to transmitting the yellow fever, West Nile, dengue, chikungunya ...
Rabies
Outbreak News Today
Governor of the Loreto region, Fernando Meléndez said at least 12 people in the remote communities in the Peruvian Amazon have died from rabies in recent months and several more remain sick after catching the disease from bats.
South Strand news
An individual has been referred to their health care provider for consultation after a possible rabies exposure in the Murrells Inlet area of Georgetown County by a raccoon that tested positive for the disease, the South Carolina Department of Health ...
American Veterinary Medical Association
New guidance in this issue of the JAVMA advises that cats and dogs that are exposed to rabies and are overdue for a vaccine can have a booster shot followed by an observation period rather than be subject to quarantine or euthanasia.
Syracuse.com
Officials did say that two people are undergoing post-exposure rabies treatment as a result of encountering the fox. It wasn't clear what their conditions are. In a statement Jiancheng Huang, county public health director, said the relatively mild ...
Reuters
UKLIMA At least 12 people in remote indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have died from rabies in recent months and several more remain sick after catching the disease from bats, a local governor said Wednesday.
Arutz Sheva
The Ministry of Health has received reports of a horse that has been diagnosed with rabies. The horse was used for herding cattle by Guma Junction. The herders have received treatment to prevent them from coming down with the disease.
National Mirror
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has come up with a national strategy which include increased sensitization on rabies and dangers of dog bite, encouraging responsible dog ownership.
The Durango Herald
“Rabies in our canine population has pretty much been eliminated in the Western Slope. I never hear of humans contacting it from a dog or cat,” said Chris Nelson, director of animal services for the La Plata County Humane Society.
wivb.com
LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) — After two pet dogs tussled with a raccoon, killing it on 74th Street in Niagara Falls, health officials say they've identified their first rabies case of the year.
Schistosomiasis (Schisto, Bilharzia, Snail Fever)
Counsel & Heal
Particular worms residing in African snails may get transferred to human beings too. They lead to illness, known as schistosomiasis but also referred to as bilharzia.
Imperial College London
SCI volunteer, Beatriz Calvo receives Prime Minister's 'Points of Light' awardImperial College LondonIt has been a rewarding experience volunteering at the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) and being able to contribute to the great work that the SCI team is doing to combat parasitic diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
CADTM.org
In the Akosombo region of Ghana, for example, the infection rate among schoolchildren for “snail fever”—a water-borne disease that can cause anemia, learning disabilities and colon damage—was 5 percent before construction of a World Bank–backed dam ...
Newswise (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.
Vanguard
Recent WHO reports show that Nigeria has the highest number of schistosomiasis, ascariasis and other preventable parasitic diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. We should learn to adopt the principle of laying siege on infectious agents.
Soil transmitted helminthiases (Ascaris lumbricoides, whipworm, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm, Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale)
CWRU Observer
... and poultry; anticoccidial agents for poultry; and chewable tablets that kill fleas and prevent flea infestations, heartworm diseases, roundworm diseases, hookworm diseases, and whipworm diseases.
La Voz del Interior
En nuestro país, los más frecuentemente aislados en niños tienen nombres extraños: Giardia lamblia (causa predominantemente diarrea), Enterobius vermicularis (inquietud, picazón) y Ascaris lumbricoides (dolor abdominal), aunque la lista incluye más de ...
The Hindu
The 400 mg tablet removes the growth of hook worm, whip worm, and round worm in the body. Health officials said that these worms cause malnutrition among children and prevent growth.
The Hindu
... spread from person to person, don't migrate within the body, and can be eradicated with anti—worm medicines. Almost all of those who use worms ingest one of four different species: rat tapeworm, pig whipworm, human whipworm, or human hookworm.
Chandigarh Tribune
The tablet removes the growth of hook worm, whip worm and round worm in the body. Presence of these worms in the body of children results in anaemia. The worms cause malnutrition among children and curtail growth.
Вести.Ru
Оказалось, что основными внутренними врагами викингов, живших 1000 лет назад возле Виборга, были создания с весьма неаппетитными названиями: власоглав (Trichuris trichiura), печёночная двуустка (Fasciola hepatica) и аскарида (Ascaris).
Times of India
Round worm was the commonest affecting more than 69.9% kids while hook worm and whip worm was found hitting 22.7% and 4.6% children, respectively.
SahilOnline
“Open defecation, failing to wash hands before consumption of food, walking barefoot, consuming fruits and vegetables without washing them are some of the reasons for entering of hook worm, whip worm and round worm to the body of children,”
The Hindu
The tablet removed the growth of hook worm, whip worm and round worm in the body. The growth of those worms in the body of children resulted in anaemia. The worms caused malnutrition among children and curtailed growth of children.
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. He rounded up literature from the last ...
Trachoma
Chandigarh Tribune
The app developed for the trachoma survey is also being trialled for gathering information about other diseases on WHO's list, including schistosomiasis, yaws, soil-transmitted helminth infections and guinea worm disease.
The Nation Newspaper
Polio and Trachoma, an infectious disease of the eyelid spread by poor hygiene and sanitation arising from lack of adequate safe water supply could also result in the future.
AllAfrica.com
The scale and quality of the survey mean trachoma, an extremely painful disease which causes blindness, could be eliminated by 2020, according to the GTMP organisers - the World Health Organization, the Carter Center, and the international NGO ...
The Guardian
A leading expert in Indigenous eye health has urged the federal government not to become complacent about rates of trachoma in remote Aboriginal communities, saying it will take constant pressure to meet Australia's target of eradicating the disease by ...
SBS
Twenty-three years after his death, and on the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program (NTEHP), Mrs Hollows and around 50 people have gathered at her husband's grave in Bourke on Thursday.
Huffington Post Australia
Run by the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists, the program set out to eliminate the potentially blinding disease, trachoma, and other eye conditions in rural and remote communities.
SciDev.Net:
Mapping trachoma to eradicate blindness “…Until now, lack of data on trachoma-hit areas has meant health programs did not necessarily reach the most vulnerable. In the interactive visualization below, we explore the Global Trachoma Mapping Project (GTMP). Implemented in 2012, it is the largest global mapping of infectious disease ever…” (2/9).
The Guardian
“We are the last developed nation in the world where the infectious and wholly preventable eye disease of trachoma
Other Neglected Conditions:
Mycetoma
NPR
The entry that won last year focused on an infection called mycetoma, a flesh-eating, bone-destroying fungus. Caught early, the infection can be halted with the right drugs and treatments.
Venomous Snakebites
SDE Entertainment News
Tanzanian gospel star Rose Muhando has finally spoken about the snake bite incident in January. Muhando was admitted to hospital after being bitten by a snake in her compound on January 19.
Toowoomba Chronicle
UPDATE: A woman has been airlifted to hospital after she was bitten by a deadly brown snake this morning. The 30-year-old woman is in a stable condition after she was bitten by the snake on Meandarra Talwood Rd at Inglestone this morning.
The West Australian
Fight for life after snake bite Parmelia resident Janice Taylor sustained bruises to her face when she fell after a snake bite. When Janice Taylor went to the Safety Bay Bowling Club on January 28 for her regular bingo night she had no idea that in a ...
The Hindu
M. Karuppaiah (23) of Sithanaickenpalayam, Sulur, died of snakebite on Monday. He was bitten by a snake while working in a poultry farm on Saturday. He was rushed to CMCH, where he died.
The Queensland Times
Luckily for Ms Boekel she was on her way to Ipswich Hospital for her son's appointment where nurses told her it wasn't a spider bite, but a snake bite. She stayed in hospital overnight and was given anti-venom once doctors determined it was a tiger snake.
BLOGS:
Medgadget.com (blog)
MRS281 “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. This report on Schistosomiasis also ...
Rising Kashmir (press release) (registration) (blog)
On post-mortem of the available carcass it was noticed that the animals died due to heavy infestation of liver flukes. Accordingly, all the sheep breeders of the area were advised to undertake dosing of their livestock against Fascioliasis .
BMC Blogs Network
Schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminths (STH)
Justmeans (blog)
Novartis Foundation commemorates World Leprosy Day with its continued efforts to go the last mile toward (3BL Media/Justmeans) – Leprosy is a disease that many of us associate with Biblical times, a disease that surely must be extinct by now.
Medgadget.com (blog)
Drugs-for-Elephantiasis-Market Global Drugs for Elephantiasis (Lymphatic Filariasis) Industry 2016 and analysis by 2020 analyzed the world's main region market size, share, trends, conditions, including the product price, profit, capacity, production ...
The Standard Digital News (satire) (press release) (registration) (blog)
Tsetse flies have without a doubt shaped Africa's landscape. They determine human settlements, delineate grazing fields and arable lands; subsequently spelling doom for human beings in areas where they inhabit, causing sleeping sickness epidemics.
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