Yale Environment 360
For some unknown reason, the species of snails that can better adapt to warm open areas that occur after a forest is cut down are better hosts for parasites called flatworms, some of which cause schistosomiasis, a disease which damages human organs.
AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine
[Daily Trust] Zaria -The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria is today completing a three-week training of 16 doctors from Hungary on tropical diseases.
Times of India
The session on infectious diseases this session was mainly focused on the contribution of Drug for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Switzerland in the field of neglected tropical diseases.
Dove Medical Press
Tropical countries, characterized by poor socioeconomic conditions, are more exposed to these diseases, but Europe is experiencing an increasing number of human cases of mosquito-borne diseases, both imported and indigenous.
The Atlantic
“…[A]s the Zika epidemic continues to spread through Brazil, Central America, and now the United States, scientists will continue to wrestle with how environmental factors like climate change are affecting the creatures that spread infectious diseases…”
euronews
... which in the exceptional 2009/2010 outbreak of swine flu are reported to have claimed 285,000 human lives. Worms kill more than 190,000 per year via diseases such as Taeniasis,Cysticercosis, Echinococcosis and soil-transmitted helminth infections.
Chagas disease / American trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma cruzi, T. cruzi)
Ars Technica
A Triatomine bug, or kissing bug, that transmits the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas Disease. Glenn Seplak. After firing the infamous Martin Shkreli as its CEO, filing for bankruptcy, and getting delisted from the NASDAQ stock ...
Nature.com
The infective trypomastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, subvert the inflammatory capacity of macrophages by activating Smad 2 nuclear translocation and inducible NO synthase enzyme degradation in host cells.
Science Codex
The international, multicenter, double-blind and placebo-controlled "Benznidazole Evaluation for InterruptingTrypanosomiasis" (BENEFIT) trial initiated more than 10 years ago in order to determine whether the estimated 1.2 million people now living ...
BioNews Texas
Trypanosoma cruzi - chagas Disease Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi (T.cruzi), mostly transmitted to humans by the feces of triatomine ...
Business Insider
Under a magnification of 1000X, a micrograph reveals Trypanosoma cruzi parasites in a blood smear using Giemsa staining technique. This protozoan parasite, T. cruzi, is the causative agent for Chagas disease.
Nasdaq
Benznidazole, the drug at issue, is an established treatment for Chagas disease, which is an parasitic infection designated as neglected and in need of attention as a public health matter by U.S. regulators.
Phys.Org... architectural dissimilarities between opisthokonts (yeast and vertebrates), and a group of creatures known as trypanosomes. The trypanosomes are known for many things, not least of which is being the parasites responsible for Chagas disease and ...
BioNews Texas
Trypanosoma cruzi - chagas Disease Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), mostly transmitted to humans by the feces of triatomine ...
Dengue
Vaccine News Daily
Dengue fever, transmitted through bites from mosquitoes infected with the virus, may cause life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic/dengue shock ...
Dengue fever, transmitted through bites from mosquitoes infected with the virus, may cause life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic/dengue shock ...
News.LK
President Maithripala Sirisena participated as the Chief Guest at the inaugural session of the International Conference on Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever 2016, held at the BMICH, yesterday (24). The International Conference on Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever 2016 will be held from 24-26 February 2016 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall in Colombo under the "Dengue: To Stem the Tide". The technical session of the three-day conference will be held today and tomorrow.
Coconuts Bali
Chief Medical Officer of Denpasar, Luh Putu Sri Armini claims to not have yet received any letter or memo on the city's dengue hemorrhagic fever ...
Chief Medical Officer of Denpasar, Luh Putu Sri Armini claims to not have yet received any letter or memo on the city's dengue hemorrhagic fever ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
That first night in the hotel room, a misanthropic mosquito had dined on Zahn infecting him with dengue fever, a debilitating tropical disease related to the viruses that cause West Nile infection and yellow fever. "
Outbreak News Today
On Feb. 9, she sought medical attention and, on the same day, her samples were collected for laboratory testing. The samples tested positive for dengue by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
Health Aim
These mosquitoes live in places affected by rainfall, temperature and rapid urbanization. Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (severe dengue) was first recognized in the 1950s. It then became publicly known as a widespread disease which claimed countless lives ...
Big Island Video News
HAWAII ISLAND – There were no new cases of dengue fever reported by the Hawaii Department of Health today, and Hawaii County Civil Defense says plans are underway to reopen Ho'okena Beach Park by March 1, 2016.
Pakistan Today
Chief Minister's Adviser on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique said on Friday that the cooperation of Sri Lankan experts in the treatment of dengue patients and eradication of dengue virus in Punjab was commendable.
The University of Hawaii Kaleo
Dengue fever continues to spread throughout communities and has recently spread to Maui after a resident had traveled to a country where the fever is a problem. “It's something to worry about.
Fox News
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health experts called on Thursday for urgent action to tackle the "global dengue pandemic", and said the number of cases was expected to spike in some countries this year, partly because of the El Niño weather ...
MIT Technology Review
Some Latin American cities could soon begin releasing millions of mosquitoes developed with funding from Bill Gates. by Antonio Regalado; February 26, 2016.
The News International
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday approved a three-year Rs274 million dengue prevention and control programme, for the first time in Sindh. Gathering data from all public and private hospitals, establishing isolation wards in all ...
The Express Tribune
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa health department has prepared a dengue action plan to prevent the spread of virus in the province, stated a press release on Thursday.
West Hawaii Today
KAILUA-KONA — The Big Island's dengue fever case count held steady Thursday with no new cases confirmed by state health officials. Since Sept. 11, 260 cases of the mosquito-borne virus have been confirmed on the island.
Express.co.uk
Health experts have called for urgent action to tackle the spread of the ”global dengue pandemic" in Asia, which had the highest spike of the disease in the world. Dr In-Kyu Yoon, director of theDengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI), said: “The dengue ...
World Health Organization
On 13 February 2016, the National IHR Focal Point (IHR NFP) of Uruguay notified PAHO/WHO a case of dengue. The case is a 31-year-old female from Montevideo who developed fever and joint pain on 5 February. On 9 February, she sought medical ...
Medical Xpress
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease that can develop into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome. There are currently no standard biomarkers or algorithms for the prognosis of the progression to hemorrhagic ...
Hawaii Tribune Herald
Chairman Dru Kanuha called a special meeting of the County Council for 9 a.m. March 2 to receive an update from local and state officials about efforts to control the dengue fever outbreak on the Big Island.
FierceVaccines
The trial funding comes as Brazil grapples with outbreaks from dengue and Zika, both spread by the same mosquito species. Brazil has already approved Sanofi's dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, but hasn't announced a vaccination strategy utilizing that jab.
AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -Between the start of the outbreak in late August 2015 and 7 February this year, 612 suspected dengue fever cases, including 106 deaths, were reported in Sudan.
Disease Outbreak News
On 13 February 2016, the National IHR Focal Point (IHR NFP) of Uruguay notified PAHO/WHO a case of dengue.
The case is a 31-year-old female from Montevideo who developed fever and joint pain on 5 February. On 9 February, she sought medical attention and, on the same day, her samples were collected for laboratory testing.
Washington Post
Zika exposes class differences in Brazil, where most victims are poor “…Since last year, Zika has infected an estimated 1.5 million Brazilians, mostly in the hot, poor northeast.
Jakarta Post
“We have to remain cautious until April this year,” the agency's disease prevention and control (P2P) division head Herry Martanta told The Jakarta Post, Wednesday, adding that dengue was endemic from the beginning of the rainy season until the ...
Sky News Australia
Queenslanders undergoing dengue fever testing will also automatically be tested for Zika virus, the state's health minister says. Cameron Dick's announcement in parliament on Thursday comes as spraying for mosquitoes that could carry Zika continues in ...
Big Island Video News
HAWAII ISLAND – On Wednesday, the Hawaii Department of Health identified 1 new case of dengue fever, bringing the total number of confirmed cases on Hawaii Island since the outbreak began in September 2015 to 260.
West Hawaii Today
HILO — Chairman Dru Kanuha has called a special meeting of the County Council for 9 a.m. March 2 to receive an update from local and state officials on efforts to control the dengue fever outbreak on the Big Island.
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
As of 1 p.m. Tuesday (Feb 23) 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 259. These cases include 234 residents and 25 visitors.
Times of India
Asian countries spend an estimated 6.5 billion USD annually in both direct and indirect medical costs due to Dengue. The situation gets murkier because of the absence of any kind of preventive medicines for the same.
St, Thomas Source
On Tuesday afternoon the Virgin Islands Department of Health announced that the territory is simultaneously facing two mosquito-borne tropical diseases. It confirmed additional cases of Zika virus and the first new cases of dengue in more than a year.
Big Island Video News
HOLUALOA, Hawaii – The dengue fever outbreak has taken a toll on local business, according to William Pink, an operator of overnight accommodations business in Holualoa.
The Straits Times
The number of dengue cases spiked by more than 40 per cent last week, raising fears that the virus could reach record levels this year. After three consecutive weeks of decline, there were 594 reported cases between Feb 14 and 20, 175 more than in the ...
NDTV
Bill Gates said every year more than 60,000 kids die of malaria which are mosquito-caused death, that is the animal that generates the most mortality.
CBC.ca
Dengue fever is particularly worrisome for the 32-year-old Pierse, because contracting dengue a second time is more likely to lead to dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome, which is associated with a high mortality rate.
MIT News
A professor and associate department head in civil and environmental engineering, Eltahir has long set his sites on a particularly "nasty guy" — the Aedes aegypti mosquito — responsible for one of the most devastating of viruses, Dengue, and now the ..
Yahoo Canada Sports
Dengue fever is particularly worrisome for the 32-year-old Pierse, because contracting dengue a second time is more likely to lead to dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome, which is associated with a high mortality rate.
Wall Street Journal
MANILA—Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of France's Sanofi SA, on Tuesday made the Philippines the first country where its vaccine for dengue fever will be widely available.
UPI.com23 (UPI)
-- Plan International, a children's development organization, warns that Fiji is under the threat of Zika virus and dengue fever following the devastating Cyclone Winston. "The threat of dengue and zika in the coming days in Fiji is real ...
Newsweek
Worker-fills-buckets-fresh-water-cyclone-Fiji. A worker from Suva's City Council fills residents' buckets with fresh water after power outages caused by Cyclone Winston stopped the pumps from working throughout Fiji's capital Suva, February 23.
Reuters
Brazil invests $75 million to develop dengue vaccine. Monday, February 22, 2016 - 00:49. Brazilian President Rousseff initiates the third phase of clinical trials to develop a dengue fever vaccine. Katie Sargent reports.
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: The number of new dengue cases in Singapore spiked to 594 in the week ending Feb 20, after a three-week decline which saw the number of reported cases falling to 419, according to latest figures published on the National Environment ...
ETHealthWorld.com
Lyon, France - February 22, 2016 - Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced today that vaccinations with Dengvaxia have commenced in the Philippines following official receipt of the first shipment of the vaccine earlier this month.
Townsville Bulletin
The resident, believed to be a man, will also be tested for Zika virus, which has so far not been transmitted in Australia by dengue mosquitoes. The latest outbreak of locally acquired dengue comes after the diagnosis of a Hermit Park woman in July ..
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - The biggest dengue cluster in Singapore has closed, thanks to collective efforts to stem mosquito breeding in the area. The cluster, located in Tampines Polyview, had racked up 278 cases since the first case was reported in November last year.
West Hawaii Today
No new cases of dengue fever were confirmed over the weekend on the Big Island, state health officials reported Monday afternoon. Since the start of the outbreak on Sept. 11, 259 cases of the mosquito-borne virus have been confirmed on the Big Island.Asia Minute: Dengue Challenges in Southeast AsiaHawaii Public Rad..
The Star Online
STUDENTS from the Taylor's University School of Medicine (SOM) have been on a mission to empower the community of Taman Putra Damai to combat future dengue occurrences. The campaign is timely with Malaysia recording a total of 96,222 dengue ...
PR Newswire (press release
GlobalData's clinical trial report, "Dengue Fever Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2016" provides an overview of Dengue Fever clinical trials scenario.
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: A dengue cluster in Tampines, which was the biggest cluster islandwide until last week, is now closed, but remains under surveillance. According to the National Environment Agency's (NEA) website, no new cases have been reported in the last ...
Times of India
MUMBAI: French vaccine-maker Sanofi Pasteur on Monday announced that vaccinations with Dengvaxia-the first vaccine approved for the prevention of dengue-- have commenced in the Philippines. India which witnessed the largest incidence of dengue ...
Honolulu Civil Beat
But Hawaii's real enemy isn't dengue fever or the Zika virus, it's the mosquitos that spread them. And despite all the advances in medicine and technology in the last century, mosquito control seems to be something we've gotten worse at ,,,
The Tico Times
The Health Ministry reported last week that the number of people in Costa Rica who have tested positive for dengue or chikungunya during the first five weeks of 2016 jumped more than 600 percent for both viruses compared to the same period last year.
Courier Mail
Townsville Public Health Unit has confirmed the first case of locally acquired dengue, making it the first outbreak this wet season. The Pallarenda resident was confirmed as having dengue today.
Honolulu Civil Beat
Sections. Chad Blair: Aloha everybody and welcome to another installment of the Pod Squad. Chad Blair with Honolulu Civil Beat. And today, an interesting discussion about dengue outbreak on the Big Island.
Inquirer.net
FOR NOW, the cost of the dengue vaccine will have to be shouldered by those who want protection against the mosquito-borne disease, except..
Jamaica Gleaner
Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Winston De La Haye yesterday confirmed that a higher than usual number of cases of dengue have being detected locally in recent days. De La Haye said: "As at the week ending February 20, 2016, there were 23 cases of ...
Sun.Star
EVEN with the launch of the world's first dengue vaccine, the Department of Health (DOH) is reminding the public that it still better to maintain cleanliness in the community to prevent dengue outbreak.
Business Insider
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.
Human African trypanosomiasis / Sleeping sickness
EurekAlert (press release)
African trypanosomiasis is called 'sleeping sickness' because when the infection is untreated, trypanosome parasites will invade the brain and cause disruption of sleeping patterns and irreversible neurological damage.
Leishmaniasis
Times of India
He talked about diversity in leishmania treatments in different regions. "Nearly 2-4 lakh cases of Kala-azar are added every year especially in Brazil, East Africa and India," Dr Rijal said. Almost 45 districts of Bangladesh, 640 districts in India and ...
Nature.com
Hiding of promastigotes in 'apoptotic' neutrophils not only delivers viable Leishmania into macrophages but also delays the immune response against the parasite until the first line neutrophilic response is resolved.
Pakistan Today
Earlier in 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) had expressed concern over prevalence of leishmaniasis in different parts of KP and called for ...
Leprosy / Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae, M. leprae)
indiatvnews.com
India is the abode of 60 % of world's leprosy affected people.Leprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe, disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms and legs.
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
Today is World Leprosy Day and the National Leprosy Control Program of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services is organising a one-day forum to commemorate the day in Honiara. Being the 63rd World Leprosy Day, the forum aims to enhance ...
Voice of America
The U.S.-based World Outreach Ministry Foundation has distributed thousands of relief items to South Sudanese living in aleprosy isolation camp in Bor County's Malek Village, located in Jonglei state.
Auckland stuff.co.nz
The 21-year-old Gulf Harbour man was chosen as one of seven young New Zealanders to visit the country for two weeks as youth advocates for Leprosy Mission NZ. The group was based at Anandaban Hospital, a hospital training centre outside Kathmandu.
Nippon.com
While he was thinking, walking around, and taking notes, he arrived at Tama Zenshōen, one of 13 national sanatoriums established in Japan for people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease). The care facility in Higashimurayama, western Tokyo, ...
Swindon Advertiser
Mike Thomas, 65, is the Swindon area's representative for TheLeprosy Mission, a charity devoted to combating the disease in many countries, including Nepal, which was hit last year by a major earthquake
The Hindu
A leprosy care centre has been opened by Chennai Corporation in Madambakkam, a town panchayat near Tambaram. The facility, declared open by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa last month, is set on a 33-acre site at Radhasamy Koil Street, Maruthi Nagar that ...
Daily Sun
Leprosy colonies across the country are in appallingly condition due to lack of basic health care, shelter, food, clothing and general social security, call for concern. Colonies such as the Uzuakoli leper colony, Minna leprosy village, Nnewi leper ...
Asahi Shimbun
KUMAMOTO--Their names may not be Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Monet, but a group of artists who suffered from Hansen's diseasewill have their works immortalized in a similar manner to the great masters. Work will begin in March to digitize approximately ...
Aljazeera.com
Each year, about 250,000 people are infected with leprosy worldwide. Although Nepal's government announced that leprosy had been eliminated in the country in 2009 - based on the World Health Organization's measurement of less than one case per ...
Lymphatic filariasis / Elephantiasis
GhanaWeb
Mr. Mansur Mohammed Zacharia, the Sunyani Municipal Disease Control Officer, has called for stepped-up media education and good sanitation practices, as part of aggressive measures to control the spread of elephantiasis in the Brong-Ahafo Region, ...
Devex
Student receives deworming medical tablets at Upper Primary School in Janaksinghpura, Rajasthan, India, during National Deworming Day. Photo by: Kuni Takahashi / Evidence Action. India recently held the largest single-day public health campaign ever ...
AsiaOne
The DDC reported that in 2014 there were 400,500 cumulative HIV cases, 7,270 malaria cases, 3,252 tuberculosis cases, 232elephantiasis cases and 47 leprosy cases detected among foreign workers. It was noted that the statistics might have discrepancies ...
Rabies
Mid-Day
In 90 per cent cases, rabies patients don't survive. On Friday ... “Rabies death is rare since the victims get vaccination shots after the bite.
Jefferson Public Radio
The clinic recommends a series of shots, first a fast-acting one of rabies immune globulin near the animal's bite, followed by four rabies-vaccine shots ...
Chandigarh Tribune
Rabies injections are not available in the hospital for the past one week but the problem has not been addressed. “I am visiting the hospital for the last ...
Coconuts Bali
A total of 15 people were officially recorded as having died from rabies in Bali province in 2015, with the highest amount of deaths (six) in Buleleng, ...
My Twin Tiers.com
A feral cat in Bradford County has tested positive for rabies in Wilmot Township, Pa. The cat was then taken to the Pa. Veterinary Lab in Harrisburg for tests after it bit a person who was petting it.
dvm360
Have a veterinary patient bitten by a rabid animal that isn't quite up to date on its rabies vaccination? You may be able to hold off on the quarantine, or, worse, euthanasia.
Times of India
The drug, rabies human monoclonal antibody (RMAb), has been developed by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) and US-based Mass Biologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
AllAfrica.com
Namibia is edging closer to a possible world first for developing an anti-rabies vaccine for kudu after a research team concluded that the results achieved so far in the Rabies in Kudu Project fully justify the implementation of the second phase in a …
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
A College of the Canyons student bitten by a bat on the Valencia campus underwent a precautionary treatment for rabies, a spokesman for the college said Monday.
YubaNet
Sutter Creek, Calif. February 22, 2016 - Amador County Public Health and Animal Control Departments remind residents that rabies in wildlife continues to pose a risk to pets and people. Multiple wildlife have tested positive for rabies in 2016.
Rabid dog bites 16 in NowsheraThe News International
Talking to reporters, Medical Officer Dr Yousaf Ali Khan said all the patients were administered anti-rabies injections. They were advised to complete ...
Talking to reporters, Medical Officer Dr Yousaf Ali Khan said all the patients were administered anti-rabies injections. They were advised to complete ...
Schistosomiasis (Schisto, Bilharzia, Snail Fever)
Imperial College London
Imperial researcher Dr Mike French will run the 2016 London Marathon to help the College treat thousands of children with parasite-borne illnesses.
International Business Times UK
Schistosomiasis (aka Bilharzia) is a infection caused by a parasitic worm, Schistosoma, living in fresh water in tropical regions.
Sierra Sun Times
Schistosomiasis is spread by contact with fresh water contaminated with the parasites. These parasites are released from infected freshwater snails.
Headlines & Global News
A new study by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has revealed that the bilharzia-causing parasite, Schistosoma mansoni, made its way to the New World by travelling trough slave traders, who were first infected as they fished in the ...
Trachoma
The Economist
TRICHIASIS, the last stage of an infection called trachoma, rarely hits the headlines. That is because it does not kill. It does, however, blind. More than 2m people suffer, half of whom have lost their vision.
Global Trachoma Mapping Project Atlas Will Help Achieve Disease Elimination The Economist: Now is the time to say “goodbye” “…The [Global Trachoma Mapping Project] atlas’s publication brings encouraging news. Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda had much lower levels of trachoma than expected.
EurekAlert (press release)
For the first time, genome sequencing has been carried out on Chlamydiatrachomatis (C. trachomatis), a bacteria responsible for the diseaseTrachoma - the world's leading infectious cause of blindness, according to a study in Nature Communications.
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Trachoma is a neglected tropical disease and one where the clear benefits of a combined skill set, using both classical and cutting edge techniques, ...
Daily Mail
It has long been known that a strain of chlamydia bacteria - called C. trachomatis - causes trachoma, a neglected tropical disease that can render a ...
Other Neglected Conditions:
Venomous Snakebite
The New Indian Express
Though government hospitals claim to have enough anti-venom stock, ... “Two ICUs are operating exclusively for snake bites, but they do not have ...
Though government hospitals claim to have enough anti-venom stock, ... “Two ICUs are operating exclusively for snake bites, but they do not have ...
Australian Geographic
And although most they lay eggs, some snakes such as the red-bellied black ... Anti-venom is available for all venomous snake species in Australia.
And although most they lay eggs, some snakes such as the red-bellied black ... Anti-venom is available for all venomous snake species in Australia.
Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN – A Beaufort West couple has been left distraught after their two-year-old daughter died from a snake bite. Karlien Esterhuizen was sleeping in her parents' bed at the weekend when a Cape cobra slithered under the sheets and bit her on her …
BLOGS:
HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
Like many engineers at MIT, Elfatih A. B. Eltahir builds models. But his models, numerically heavy and integrating satellite, atmospheric, and field intelligence, do not pop out of a 3-D printer.
The Standard Digital News (satire) (press release) (registration) (blog)
The teacher said the previous day, the pupils had received a dose of Albendazole 400 milligrammes for deworming and Praziquantel 600 miligrammes for bilharzia (Schistosomiasis).
Medgadget.com (blog)
The Drugs for Schistosomiasis market analysis is provided for the United States markets including development trends, competitive landscape analysis, and key regions development status.
End the Neglect
by Liz Powell
An unknown among unknown diseases, podoconiosis (podo for short) is a devastating type of elephantiasis spread by long-term exposure to minerals found in volcanic soil. Unlike lymphatic filariasis, podo is not infectious.
Voice of America (blog)
Dr. Neeraj Mistry is the managing director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington. He said, “More than a billion people affected by Neglected Tropical Diseases don't have anyone lobbying for them.
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