Putting Maasai women behind the camera to take control of Trachoma control
In a recent study by Mtuy et al 2021, researchers assessed the use of Photovoice as a community engagement tool by putting Maasai women on the other… Read more »
Topics
Health
Latest Health posts
Chasing after the human flea, a controversial bubonic plague vector
Bubonic plague is considered by many as a disease from the past, a dark age scourge which took millions of lives during major pandemics. Although… Read more »
More Health posts
Malaria vaccines: a new approach for an old idea
Clinical trials of malaria vaccines composed of live parasites in combination with anti-malaria drugs to kill the parasites once… Read more »
Discoverability: encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration in One Health
Back in 2018, I attended the 5th International One Health Congress, hosted by the One Health Platform. For me, it was an eye… Read more »
Can catching pregnant mosquitoes prevent disease?
A new study investigates how effective ovitraps are for the control of mosquitoes (and eventual prevention of disease) in Texas… Read more »
Improving disease ecology education for the future
Krisztian Magori summarizes the improvements that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the Disease Ecology Senior Capstone class… Read more »
Spatial sampling and machine learning approaches to improve schistosomiasis control
The control and elimination of Schistosomiasis is a huge project and has gained an increasing amount of manpower and financial… Read more »
When people leave city blocks, what fills their place?
A recent study looked at the diversity of rodents and their bacterial pathogens to better understand how human disease risk… Read more »
Parasites and Vectors: the original renegades
Triatomine bugs and their trypanosomes are popping up in New Orleans, a beloved mecca of food, arts, and music- reminding us that… Read more »
Can three years of intensive deworming eliminate soil-transmitted helminths?
The DeWorm3 transmission model seeks to answer the question. The trial is testing the hypothesis that frequent mass drug… Read more »
BugBitten: A blog for the parasites and vectors community
- Most read
- Most shared