Pathogens and Global Health: January 2014 - June 2014.

The following issues of Pathogens and Global Health are now available:

Issue 1 January 2014 (1 – 60)

Articles include:

Potential therapeutic use of herbal extracts in trypanosomiasis

Thaise L. Teixeira, Samuel Cota Teixeira, Claudio Vieira da Silva, Maria A. de. Souza

pp. 30–36

Unusual multiple large abscesses of the liver: interest of the radiological features and the real-time PCR to distinguish between bacterial and amebic etiologies

Guillaume Desoubeaux, Hélène Chaussade, Marc Thellier, Sophie Poussing,Frédéric Bastides, Eric Bailly, Philippe Lanotte, Daniel Alison, Laurent Brunereau, Louis Bernard, Jacques Chandenier

pp. 53–57

Issue 2 March 2014 (61 – 122)

Articles include:

Integrated surveillance of pulmonary tuberculosis and paragonimiasis in Zamboanga del Norte, the Philippines

Vicente Belizario Jr., Francis Isidore Totanes, Camille Ann Asuncion, Winifreda De Leon, Manuel Jorge, Concepcion Ang, June Rose Naig

pp. 95–102

Comparative performance of the probable case definitions of dengue by WHO (2009) and the WHO-SEAR expert group (2011)

Zinia T. Nujum, Achu Thomas, K. Vijayakumar, Radhakrishnan R. Nair, M. Radhakrishna Pillai, P. S. Indu, Syam Sundar, Soumya Gopakumar, Devi Mohan, T. K. Sudheeshkumar

pp. 103–110

Performance of three rapid screening methods in the detection of Schistosoma haematobium infection in school-age children in Southeastern Nigeria

Ogochukwu Caroline Okeke, Patience Obiageli Ubachukwu

pp. 111–117

Issue 3 April 2014 (123 – 163)

Articles include:

The disappearance of onchocerciasis without intervention in Tigray Region in Northwest Ethiopia

Moses N. Katabarwa, Tekola Endeshaw, Aseged Taye, Zerihun Tadesse,Richards O. Frank

pp. 123–123

Prevalence and risk factors of acquiring Strongyloides stercoralisinfection among patients attending a tertiary hospital in Thailand

Ubonvan Jongwutiwes, Duangdao Waywa, Saowaluk Silpasakorn, Darawan Wanachiwanawin, Yupin Suputtamongkol

pp. 137–140

Issue 4 June 2014 (169 – 211)

Articles include:

Prevalence and characteristics of neuropathic pain in leprosy patients treated years ago

José Manuel Ramos, Beatriz Alonso-Castañeda, Dejene Eshetu, Deriba Lemma, Francisco Reyes, Isabel Belinchón, Miguel Górgolas

pp. 186–190

Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths after mass albendazole administration in an indigenous community of the Manu jungle in Peru

Miguel M. Cabada, Martha Lopez, Eulogia Arque, A. Clinton White

pp. 200–205

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

-John Quincy Adams

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) for June 2014

Weekly data for reportable US diseases which includes data on:

• Dengue

• Hansen's Disease

• Rabies (human cases)

June 6, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 22 / Pg. 477 - 504; ND 297 - 310 

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

June 13, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 23 / Pg. 505 - 520; ND 311 - 324

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

June 20, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 24 / Pg. 521 - 536; ND 325 - 338

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables

June 27, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 25 / Pg. 537 - 556; ND 339 - 352 

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables

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“Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”

- Daryn Kagan

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) for May 2014

Weekly data for reportable US diseases which includes data on:

• Dengue

• Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)

• Rabies (human cases)

May 2, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 17 / Pg. 369 - 392; ND 227 - 240 

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

May 9, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 18 / Pg. 393 - 420; ND 241 - 254
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

May 16, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 19 / Pg. 421 - 440; ND 255 - 268
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

May 23, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 20 / Pg. 441 - 456; ND 269 - 282
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables

May 30, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 21 / Pg. 457 - 476; ND 283 - 296
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

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"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

 - Hippocrates

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) for April 2014

Weekly data for reportable US diseases which includes data on:

• Dengue

• Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)

• Rabies (human cases)

April 4, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 13 / Pg. 277 - 300; ND 170 - 183

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

April 11, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 14 / Pg. 301 - 320; ND 184 - 198
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

April 18, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 15 / Pg. 321 - 340; ND 199 - 212
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

April 25, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 16 / Pg. 341 - 368; ND 213 - 226 •
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

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"There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease."

 - Nelson Mandela

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) for March 2014

Weekly data for reportable US diseases which includes data on:

• Dengue

• Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)

• Rabies (human cases)

March 7, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 9 / Pg. 181 - 208; ND 114 - 127
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

March 14, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 10 / Pg. 209 - 228; ND 128 - 141
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

March 21, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 11 / Pg. 229 - 252; ND 142 - 155
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables

March 28, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 12 / Pg. 253 - 276; ND 156 - 169
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables 

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"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

- Mother Teresa