Dog adoption: are you taking home more than you bargained for?
As the pandemic continues to keep people at home, dog companions remain in high demand. A recently published consensus statement highlights the… Read more »
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How many of us are drinking toxic forever chemicals?
Many millennia from now, when humans are long vanished from the Earth, intergalactic travelers visiting our planet may wonder about this world’s… Read more »
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Deworming achieves progress towards 2030 NTD goals sub-Saharan Africa
We would like to start the new year with good news - there has been great progress towards targets of eliminating soil-transmitted… Read more »
Highlights from the BMC Series – November
The micropolitics of healthcare, primary care in the midst of the opioid epidemic, contaminated wooly mammoth DNA, and more.
Good Riddance, 2020! Roll up your sleeves for 2021!
Krisztian Magori proclaims "Good Riddance" to 2020 as he tries to put into perspective all that happened, how Bugbitten weathered… Read more »
From pole to tropics: a festive parasitic tour
The holiday season is upon us again! Join me on a whistle-stop parasite-themed tour of the season (aided by some of our festive… Read more »
The impact of mass drug administration on Schistosoma haematobium infection: what is required to achieve morbidity control and elimination?
Using an individual based stochastic model and data from two different age-intensity profiles of infection prevalence and… Read more »
The progress of surveillance of schistosomiasis in China
Schistosomiasis is one of the most important neglected tropical diseases in the world in terms of public health impacts. According… Read more »
How should we measure face washing in trachoma elimination programmes?
Researchers from the UK and Senegal assessed the reliability of facial cleanliness indicators used to measure a key component of… Read more »
Investigating the importance of the Schistosome digestive tract in host immune evasion, parasite survival and novel vaccine development
An investigation into schistosome digestive tract development reveals that the oesophageal gland, a site of protein secretion and… Read more »