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A Tale of Two Conferences
Krisztian Magori reports on two very different conferences he attended over the summer, and what he learned at them, both about pathogens and vectors,… Read more »
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Locally acquired malaria in Europe and the US
In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the… Read more »
New report of a bacterium that blocks malaria transmission
It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a… Read more »
The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease
A new review in the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty takes a look at papers examining the effect climate change will have on… Read more »
Are giardiasis-related pathologies caused only by certain Giardia duodenalis assemblages: Molecular epidemiology and assemblage typing of giardiasis infections along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi
Of the eight morphologically identical but genetically distinct G. duodenalis assemblages A-H, almost all human infections are… Read more »
The prospect of a better treatment for Chagas disease and human African sleeping sickness
The identification and discovery of the mode of action of a class of drugs, the cyanotriazoles, that poison trypanosomatids has… Read more »
Teaching disease ecology in-person is fun again (but not without challenges)!
Krisztian Magori reports on the joys and challenges of teaching his Senior Capstone class in Disease Ecology in-person again for… Read more »
The Intersecting challenges of conflict- and climate-related internal displacement for neglected tropical disease programmes.
Governments, donors and NGOs need to address the impact of climate change and conflict on NTD control and elimination efforts, as… Read more »
Could making buffets for mosquitoes help us learn about their preferences for human hosts?
Mosquitoes use scent cues to locate humans to feed upon, but do some humans smell more appealing than others, and if so, why?
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