New York Times
Prescribed for patients with African sleeping sickness, it was also made available to treat patients with pneumocystis pneumonia in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when few alternatives were available.
EurekAlert (press release)
The articles, published across PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases and written by experts directing global disease control campaigns or international research efforts, explore the diverse array of innovations that will be ...
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy: Ethical considerations for the creation a national NTD Policy This report — written by Ana Iltis, professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society at Wake Forest University and scholar at the Baker Institute, and Kirstin R.W. Matthews, fellow in science and technology
BioNews Texas
... there is a general consensus on what constitutes the seven most prevalent NTDs: the two blinding diseases of onchocerciasis and trachoma; the three soil-transmitted helminthes (worms), hookworm, roundworm and whipworm; schistosomiasis (snail fever ...
Impératif sanitaire et économique (Health and Economic Imperative)
République Togolaise
Parmi les MTN, on trouve la lèpre, l'ulcère de buruli, les leishmanioses, la filariose lymphatique, l'onchocercose, les schistosomiases, les helminthiases, le trachome et les tréponématoses endémiques.
Newswise (press release)
He has oversight of RTI's ENVISION project, a global project to control and eliminate sevenneglected tropical diseases by 2020 and previously, while ...
PLoS Blogs (blog)
The articles, written by experts who are directing global disease-control ... Substantial gains in reducing the burden of neglected tropical diseases, ..
The Philadelphia Tribune
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning pregnant ... Like their neglected tropical disease counterparts in developing countries, the ...
Pasadena Journal
Even in the United States, there is a largely hidden burden of infectious diseases caused by a group of infections known as the neglected infections of poverty.
Dengue
Outbreak News Today
In addition, health officials report two additional dengue related deaths bringing the total to three during the first two months of 2016.
Inquirer.net
Improper water storage amid the dry spell is seen as one reason behind the higher number of dengue cases in the province for January and February this year compared to the same period in 2015.
Daily Times
There is no treatment for dengue, which causes symptoms including fever, severe joint pain, headaches and bleeding. About half the world's population is at risk from the mosquito-borne disease, which sickens about 100 million people every year in Asia, ...
KHON2
The Blood Bank of Hawaii is asking people to donate blood during a special drive to help keep its supply well-stocked. Due to the dengue fever high-risk areas on Hawaii Island, the blood bank recently cancelled three drives in West Hawaii.
Big Island Now
No new cases of dengue fever were confirmed on Friday. It has over a week since the last case was confirmed on Feb. 24, leaving the total number of confirmed cases at 260.
Daily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)
Research Scientist at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Tanga Centre, Vito Baraka, said the recent announceddengue vaccine-Dengvaxia demonstrated impressive safety and efficacy in clinical trials (phaseIIII) against all four serotypes.
The Express Tribune
Sharing the results of a recent survey, DPCP's head, Dr Masood Solangi, said that most dengue cases surface in congested areas of the city where residents live in apartments. He said that in such areas people do not take extra measures to store water.
Medical Xpress
Hailed as one of the six ground breaking innovations by the UK's daily newspaper Guardian – Smarter renewable power: six innovations, research led by Dr Chong Wen Tong at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, is indeed a 'shining new light' in the fight ...
Times of India
"Zika transmitted to people by the infected Aedes species of mosquitoes that spreads dengue and chikungunya as well, does exist in India.
The Bubble
The most severe strain of the infection, known as dengue hemorrhagic fever, can be fatal.
The most severe strain of the infection, known as dengue hemorrhagic fever, can be fatal.
Jamaica Gleaner
The Health Ministry says laboratory tests have returned negative for two suspected cases of the dengue hemorrhagic fever or severe dengue.
The Health Ministry says laboratory tests have returned negative for two suspected cases of the dengue hemorrhagic fever or severe dengue.
GenomeWeb
The search uncovered metabolite shifts associated with progression to dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome, as well ...
The search uncovered metabolite shifts associated with progression to dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome, as well ...
PBS NewsHour
As mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and Zika virus continue to ravage Brazil, scientists are racing to fight back. Their latest tactic: genetically engineered mosquitoes that will pass along fatal mutations to their offspring, destroying ...
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
The response to the ongoing Dengue Fever outbreak continues. Although the number and frequency of new confirmed cases appears to be on the decline, the outbreak is not anticipated to be considered over anytime in the near future.
Jakarta Post
Wonogiri administration has declared an extraordinary situation status for dengue following the death of three people and rise in dengue cases.
The Star Online
KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor has the highest number of dengue cases this year, with 13,306 between January and March 2. Of the 55 dengue-linked deaths recorded nationwide within the same period, 18 were from Selangor, which has the highest fatality ...
Live Science
Some people who are infected with the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya may be misdiagnosed as having dengue, a different mosquito-borne virus, because the two diseases cause similar symptoms, according to a new study.
Hawaii Tribune Herald
Eight new Vector Control workers should be helping fight the island's dengue fever outbreak by next month, and the Hawaii National Guard might be called for a West Hawaii community cleanup day in the near future.
Malaysiakini (subscription)
The dengue situation in the country is predicted to be worse this year compared with last year, following the 26,533 cases reported from January until yesterday.
EurekAlert (press release)
Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes, could have been misdiagnosed as dengue because both have similar symptoms, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases.
Big Island Now
It has been one week since a new dengue fever case has been confirmed by the Hawai'i Department of Health. Currently, the confirmed dengue case count sits at 260 with no “potentially infectious” cases since Feb. 24.
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
The response to the ongoing Dengue Fever outbreak continues. Although the number and frequency of new confirmed cases appears to be on the decline, the outbreak is not anticipated to be considered over anytime in the near future.
Wall Street Journal
SÃO PAULO—Disease spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito continues to spread in Brazil, as the country reported higher numbers of cases of dengue and a further rise in suspected cases of a birth defect believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne Zika ...
Zitamar News (subscription)
An exotic Asian mosquito known to carry diseases such asdengue fever and the zika virus has been discovered in Mozambique for the first time, according to a paper by two local researchers who say their findings are of “high public health significance”.
St, Thomas Source
The Department of Health confirmed two more cases of Zika and four more cases of dengue in the last week. A total of 72 cases of Zika have been reported throughout the territory so far with 62 of them pending lab results.
Big Island Now
For nearly a week, there has been no newly confirmed cases of dengue fever on the Big Island, holding the count at 260. No “potentially infectious” cases have been listed by the Hawai'i Department of Health since last Tuesday.
Outbreak News Today
The US Virgin Islands Department of Health confirmed two additional cases of Zika on St. Croix, bringing the total to 6 cases. This is not unexpected, and the Department of Health expects that there will continue to be more positive cases in the future.
Pakistan Today
Health Department of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) is continuing with its surveillance campaign to prevent outbreak of dengue fever this summer season.
Coconuts Bangkok
More than 8,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported in Thailand in the last two months, according to the Ministry of Public Health. A total of 8,651 people have been infected this year with dengue fever, resulting in one death.
The Straits Times
I commend the Government on the latest move to extend fines to breeders of mosquitoes anywhere in Singapore, regardless of whether the home is in a dengue cluster ("$200 fine for anyone caught breeding mozzies"; Feb 29).
Stabroek News
The Daily Nation has learnt that so far, 44 cases of dengue have been confirmed and health and environment officials are extremely concerned since the same mosquito which caused those cases was also responsible for spreading the Zika virus.
Big Island Video News
HAWAII ISLAND – There have been no new cases of dengue fever identified on Hawaii Island since the last update, which was posted by state officials prior to the weekend. The health department says none of the 260 confirmed cases to date are potentially ..
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: The number of new dengue cases in Singapore fell to 513 in the week from Feb 21 to 27, after rising sharply to 593 the previous week, according to latest figures published on the National Environment Agency (NEA) website.
CBS News
On a farm in the heart of Hawaii's ongoing dengue outbreak, coffee grows wild among the ferns, and vanilla vines climb guava trees. It's hard to know where nature ends and the farm begins, and that's the way organic farmers there like it.
The Express Tribune
SARGODHA: More than 500 dengue-mosquito surveillance teams comprising lady health workers, sanitary inspectors, CDC supervisors and health officials have been tasked with checking various points of Sargodhha district, Health Executive District Officer ...
Jamaica Gleaner
The health ministry says tests have returned negative results for two suspected cases of the dengue hemorrhagic fever or severe dengue. Acting chief medical officer in the health ministry, Dr Winston De La Haye says the results were received over the ...
Outbreak News Today
After reporting more than 200,000 dengue fever cases and 600 deaths during 2015, the Philippines has recorded nearly 13,000 cases during the first five weeks of this year, according to the latest data from the Western Pacific Regional Office (WRPO).
Newsday
HONOLULU, Hawaii - On a farm in the heart of Hawaii's ongoing dengue outbreak, coffee grows wild among the ferns, and vanilla vines climb guava trees.
Asian Correspondent
RESEARCHERS at Malaysia's University of Malaya (UM) have developed an outdoor lighting system consisting of an LED street lamp that produces low levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) to trap potential dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
Bangkok Post
The number of people who contracted dengue fever so far in 2016 more than doubled from the last year, Health Ministry permanent secretary Sophon Mekthon said Monday. Dr Sophon described the dengue situation in Thailand as "dangerous and very ...
Nation News
The DAILY NATION has learnt that so far, 44 cases of dengue have been confirmed and health and environment officials are extremely concerned since the same mosquito which caused those cases was also responsible for spreading the Zika virus.
The Star Online
THE state government will beef up its Communication for Behavioural Impact (Combi) units to be more coordinated in the battle against the dengue scourge which has claimed nine lives this year. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the units formed last year ...
Fox News Latino
Uruguayan health authorities found larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the transmitter of dengue fever, in different places inside the homes of people who contracted the disease, although no new cases of the disease originating in the South American ...
Vaccine News Daily
Dengue fever, transmitted through bites from mosquitoes infected with the virus, may cause life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic/dengue shock syndrome. Currently, there are not any algorithms or biomarkers that can be used to determine the progression of ...
TODAYonline
KUALA LUMPUR — Alarmed by the record outbreak of dengue cases in Malaysia over the last two years, University Malaya (UM) researchers, led by mechanical engineering department associate professor Dr Chong Wen Tong, have invented a street light ...
Outbreak News Today
Through the seventh week of 2016, Mexico has reported 10,702 total dengue fever cases, up from 6,892 cases during the same period last year. 1,496 cases have been laboratory confirmed.
Outbreak News Today
Hawaii health officials report the dengue fever outbreak on the Big Island now stands at 260 with the additional of several new cases reported this week. Of the confirmed cases, 235 are Hawaii Island residents and 25 are visitors.
Dracunculiasis / Guinea worm
AllAfrica.com
After a 30-year fight to destroy Guinea worm disease, former US president Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that only 22 cases of the debilitating disease remain worldwide, all in sub-Saharan Africa.
Leishmaniasis
Healio
“Leishmaniasis is a major challenge to public health since the increases in deforestation, urbanization, population movement and climate change in many regions of the world. In the absence of vaccine against Leishmania, prevention remains the ...
Leprosy / Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae, M. leprae)
USA TODAY
For seven decades, his home has been the Hendala LeprosyHospital near Sri Lanka's capital of Colombo. When he and the nearly 40 other patients here eventually die, the leprosy hospital will close for good.
Global Development Professionals Network | guardian.co.uk
A colony of people who fled their homes because of discrimination nestles alongside a hospital trying to eradicate the disease. But the stigma against deformity runs deep
Auckland stuff.co.nz
The 20-year-old has returned from spending two weeks in Nepal as a Leprosy Mission youth advocate. Ratnayake is in her third year training to be a doctor at the University of Auckland and went over to volunteer at Anandaban Leprosy Hospital in the ...
Independent Catholic News
The rise in reflected more so in the northern province of Mannar, which has a population of around just 25,000, where 17 new cases of leprosy were diagnosed in 2014 - a steep rise from the solitary case in 2011.
BBC History Magazine (blog)
Leprosy was considered to be highly contagious so the main treatment was containment, which involved isolating the sufferer from healthy people. Lepers would wear bandages to cover their sores and carried a bell to warn people that they were coming.
Times of India
NAVI MUMBAI: For the last 64 years, a discreet little NGO has been treating and curing leprosy patients totally free of cost. Shantivan Ashram or Kushtarog Nivaran Samiti as it is also known, has been running a programmen for leprosy patients and have ...
Onchocerciasis / River blindness
CSRwire.com (press release)
Efforts to eliminate river blindness are aligned with WHO's Roadmap on Neglected Tropical Diseases(NTDs), which calls for elimination of river ...
Rabies
WTOP
WASHINGTON — Some rabies scares in Northern Virginia are leading to a new warning from Fairfax County's Animal Control Department. Earlier this week, Fairfax County Animal Control officers responded to three reports of animals that have come into ...
Veterinary Record - BMJ
A GLOBAL campaign to eliminate human deaths from canine-transmitted rabies by 2030 was launched at the House of Lords in London on February ...
First to Know
You've probably heard about or come into contact with an animal that has been infected with rabies, but have you ever wondered what happens to humans when they become infected? When a person contracts the virus, it can spread to the brain very quickly.
WRVO Public Media
Eight skunks in Jefferson County have tested positive for rabies this winter. County Health officials say this is number is unusually high.
New Era
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry – in partnership with the German government – has launched a rabies control pilot project to reduce help rabies in the Northern Communal Areas (NCAs), where it is most prevalent.
Lynchburg News and Advance
Rabies, which almost always is fatal unless treated before onset of symptoms, remains an ever-present concern across Region 2000, the Central ...
AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine
[New Era] Ondangwa -The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry - in partnership with the German government - has launched a rabies control pilot project to reduce help rabies in the Northern Communal Areas (NCAs), where it is most prevalent.
Belarus News (BelTA)
MINSK, February (BelTA) – Belarus and Poland are working on a joint rabies prevention program, Polish Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ewa Lech told journalists before a meeting of the Belarusian-Polish working group on agricultural ...
Schistosomiasis (Schisto, Bilharzia, Snail Fever)
Jakarta Post
The Central Sulawesi provincial administration has set up an integrated team, directly led by Governor Longki Djanggola, to implement programs to deal with schistosomiasis, also known assnail fever. One of the programs is to improve sanitation systems..
Live Science
A man in Qatar who had blood in his urine and pain for more than a month when he peed found out that his symptoms were caused by his body's attempt to fight off a parasitic worm infection, a new case report reveals.
PharmiWeb.com (press release)
This report provides comprehensive information on the therapeutic development for Schistosomiasis, complete with comparative analysis at various stages, therapeutics assessment by drug target, mechanism of action (MoA), route of administration (RoA ...
Soil transmitted helminthiases (Ascaris lumbricoides, whipworm, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm, Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale)
Medical Xpress
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases reports a cross-sectional survey done by researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and colleagues from Uganda who examined the prevalence and risk factors for intestinal parasitic infection in the ...
Hivisasa.com
The executive explained that they issued de-wormers for soil-transmitted worms like hook worms, thread worms and whip worms. “Most of the worms are spread through dirty toilets or infested fruits and vegetables,” she said.
Other Neglected Conditions:
Venomous Snakebite
Gilmer Mirror
A snakebite on a human can be painful — and also expensive. It is not uncommon for a person bit by avenomous snake to have hospital bills up to ... tissues and antivenom treatments that can run into the thousands of dollars, ...
A snakebite on a human can be painful — and also expensive. It is not uncommon for a person bit by avenomous snake to have hospital bills up to ... tissues and antivenom treatments that can run into the thousands of dollars, ...
Inquirer.net
Bernalte said Digao was bitten by an 8-foot-long King Cobra, which is ... anti-venomvaccines so they could immediately respond to snake bites.
Bernalte said Digao was bitten by an 8-foot-long King Cobra, which is ... anti-venomvaccines so they could immediately respond to snake bites.
Phys.Org
Coral snake venom carries significant neurotoxicity and human injuries can be severe or even lethal. Despite this, antivenom treatments are scarce due to challenges collecting adequate amounts of venom needed to produce anti-elapidic serum.
Yahoo News
According to official estimates there are about 3,000 snakebite cases in Australia every year, with 300-500 needing anti-venom treatment. Only an average of two a year prove fatal. Australia is home to 20 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes.
KSAT San Antonio
Sanchez said in countries like Africa or Asia with little or no access to medical care, 100,000 people die from snakebites annually. Statewide figures show lethal snakebites in Texas are rare, but Sanchez said about 20 people a year suffer painful ...
The Cairns Post
A TEENAGE boy bitten by a snake in Redlynch last night has been discharged from hospital. He was one of two Far North Queensland children bitten last night.
BLOGS:
End the Neglect by Global Network for NTDs
Barbara Bush, co-founder and CEO of Global Health Corps, addressed END7 student leaders on March 1, 2016 at the closing reception of the second annual END7 Student Advocacy Day. I am so thrilled to be here with y’all at the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases’ Second Annual END7 Student Advocacy Day.
Business Recorder (press release) (registration) (blog)
"Sand flies are the biological vector of humans and other animal's disease. Among them leishmaniasis is important because 88 countries including …
Gob.mx
¿Qué es la Leishmaniasis? La leishmaniasis es una enfermedad causada por un parásito Leishmania transmitida por la picadura de una hembra del ….
SAMAA TV (press release) (registration) (blog)
LAHORE: Advisor on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique has said effective dengue surveillance and concrete anti-dengue steps taken in March & April would benefit to control dengue in its peak seasons. All the departments should continue their vigorous ...
Medgadget.com (blog)
The 88-page research report, titled “Dengue Fever Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2016,” provides a detailed analysis and review of the global clinical trials scenario for dengue fever.
HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
HOUSTON – Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) comprise a group of parasitic, viral and bacterial infections — such as the emerging Zika virus outbreak in Brazil — that mainly afflict people living in areas of extreme poverty, including some southern ...
The Australian (subscription) (blog)
“Foot and mouth disease, rabies, threaten our borders, while drug resistant TB and the Zika virus have already hit our shores,” he said.
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