28/12/2018 Hilary Hurd

A look back over the first five years of BugBitten.

21/12/2018 Lisa O’Halloran

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a cause for concern. What can we learn from the 2014 outbreak in West Africa and what tools do we have to fight it.

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14/12/2018 Krisztian Magori

Krisztian Magori reviews the recently published report by the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, with particular emphasis on dispelling myths and misconceptions about migrants in the context of health.

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07/12/2018 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

The WHO’s Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis aims to eliminate this Neglected Tropical Disease through mass drug administration programs. Pregnant women and children under the age of 2 are currently not eligible to be part of this program. Yet Madhusmita Bal and colleagues show that children born to women who had the disease during pregnancy were more susceptible to filarial infection in childhood, so how can mass drug administration programs take this into account?