Sick’s scent
Ailie Robinson
Characteristic skin odour associated with malaria is attractive to mosquitoes
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The Equatorial Guinea Malaria Vaccine Initiative – capacity building in a malaria vaccine program
Tom Stabler
A unique partnership among institutions (an African government, an American bio-pharmaceutical company, an American non-governmental organization… Read more »
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Huge Progress in the Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Uniting to Combat's 5th progress report highlights some of the key achievements made since the London Declarations in 2012 and… Read more »
ACT Now: ACTwatch shares their observations AND their Datasets
For nine years, ACTwatch has been monitoring the state of anti-malarial and diagnostic markets across sub-Saharan Africa and the… Read more »
Yellow Fever cases on the rise in West Africa
Urbanization and shortage of vaccines are leading to the largest yellow fever outbreaks in 30 years.
Factors in the current Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria
Looking at several factors that have been influencing Lassa fever outbreaks in Nigeria shows that stopping the current outbreak… Read more »
Researching Awareness, Risk Factors and Seroprevalence of Lassa Fever in Nigeria
In Edo State, Nigeria, health researchers are collecting data on Lassa fever to improve health education and protect people from… Read more »
Malaria-driven sickle cell trait selection – evidence for modern day human evolution?
Sickle cell disease poses a serious health threat in tropical Africa and has been declared a public health priority by the World… Read more »
Ebola outbreak takes its toll on West Africa
This is an aerial photo of a river just like any other river – except that this rather innocuous looking waterway lends its name… Read more »
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