#tropicaldiseases — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tropicaldiseases, aggregated by home.social.
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Tropical Disease Oroya Fever: Elucidation of Disease Mechanism Opens Possibility for Novel Therapy Researchers at Universitaetsmedizin Frankfurt and @goetheuni.bsky.social dentify Achilles’ Heel of Bartonella bacilliformis #BeatNTDs #TropicalDiseases
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Tropenkrankheit Oroya-Fieber: Aufklärung des Krankheitsmechanismus eröffnet Möglichkeit neuartiger Therapie. Forschende @goetheuni.bsky.social identifizieren Achillesferse von Bartonella bacilliformis #BeatNTDs #TropicalDiseases
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New coming book with IntechOpen.
Current Topics in LeishmaniasisCall for Chapters' proposals - *Registration for this book closes on July 23rd 2025. #leishmaniasis #ntds #kinetoplastida #tropicaldiseases #Parasite #protozoa
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If eliminated, it would be an amazing achievement.
"Globally, Guinea worm has declined from an estimated 3.56 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just 14 human cases in 5 countries in 2023 — mostly through bottom-up, low-technology efforts similar to those in South Sudan. What’s more, this has been achieved despite the lack of a vaccine or drug treatment for the parasite."
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If eliminated, it would be an amazing achievement.
"Globally, Guinea worm has declined from an estimated 3.56 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just 14 human cases in 5 countries in 2023 — mostly through bottom-up, low-technology efforts similar to those in South Sudan. What’s more, this has been achieved despite the lack of a vaccine or drug treatment for the parasite."
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If eliminated, it would be an amazing achievement.
"Globally, Guinea worm has declined from an estimated 3.56 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just 14 human cases in 5 countries in 2023 — mostly through bottom-up, low-technology efforts similar to those in South Sudan. What’s more, this has been achieved despite the lack of a vaccine or drug treatment for the parasite."
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If eliminated, it would be an amazing achievement.
"Globally, Guinea worm has declined from an estimated 3.56 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just 14 human cases in 5 countries in 2023 — mostly through bottom-up, low-technology efforts similar to those in South Sudan. What’s more, this has been achieved despite the lack of a vaccine or drug treatment for the parasite."
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If eliminated, it would be an amazing achievement.
"Globally, Guinea worm has declined from an estimated 3.56 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just 14 human cases in 5 countries in 2023 — mostly through bottom-up, low-technology efforts similar to those in South Sudan. What’s more, this has been achieved despite the lack of a vaccine or drug treatment for the parasite."
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A network coordinated by #UniLeipzig is helping to combat #AntimicrobialResistance and neglected #TropicalDiseases in sub-Saharan Africa. The African One Health Network for Disease Prevention (ADAPT) pursues a One Health approach.
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"Kostas and the Sterile Male Insect - setting the stage for the European War on Mosquitos"
New article published in The European Perspective, just hit the "publish" button from the train!
This is the story of Kostas and Elena, who live in Northern Italy, had friends over for dinner this summer, and were drawn into a bloody battle at sundown.
https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/kostas-and-the-sterile-male-insect
#Mosquito #EuropeanPerspective #TigerMosquito #MosquitoAlert #TropicalDiseases
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Tropical diseases move north
As Earth warms, the creatures that spread neglected tropical diseases are gaining a foothold in Europe, North America. Wealthy countries must prepare themselves for more cases.
#Diseasevectors #TropicalDiseases #ClimateChange #Health
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There’s a vaccine for Chikunguyna now! This debilitating disease is spread by mosquitos and while not as in the news as malaria it causes immense suffering in its own way. So good that we have a vaccine now!
Now we just need to get it to the people most affected by Chikungunya.
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Tropical diseases move north
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03476-7
> [Neglected Tropical Diseases] affected people living in low-income countries, and supporting action to tackle them was framed as a philanthropic endeavour. But the distinction is becoming blurred as NTDs start to affect high- and middle-income countries.
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> Temperature is not the only factor: land use, globalization, inequality and biodiversity all affect NTD vectors... -
Check out this thread if you are interested in the interactions among #disease, #evolution, #socialjustice, #climatechange, #genomics, etc., especially #malaria, #schistosomiasis, #filariasis, and other #tropicaldiseases caused by #parasites.
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The submission deadline of thematic issue “When #nanomedicines meet #tropicaldiseases” edited by Eder Lilia Romero, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷, Fabio Rocha Formiga, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, University of Pernambuco and Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Recife, Brazil 🇧🇷 and Katrien Van Bocxlaer, @uniofyork, United Kingdom 🇬🇧, is extended to 📅 July 1, 2023.
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Our monthly recap is out!
8 countries eliminated #tropicaldiseases, dozens of UK companies are continuing with a 4-day work week, schools from #London to #Minnesota announced free meals & more interesting stories we’ve found in our Feb 2023 wrap-up issue 👇https://squirrel-news.net/news/23-stories-about-solutions-and-progress-from-february-2023/
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The submission deadline of the thematic issue “When #nanomedicines meet #tropicaldiseases” edited by Eder Lilia Romero, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes 🇦🇷, Fabio Rocha Formiga University of Pernambuco 🇧🇷, Katrien Van Bocxlaer, The University of York 🇬🇧, has been extended to 📅 May 1, 2023.
You are cordially invited to submit your latest research 👉 https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/series/98/?M=y