The evolutionary arms race: mass drug use and malaria parasites
The World Malaria Report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022, reported that malaria still causes over 600,000 deaths every year.… Read more »
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Krisztian Magori practices gratitude for the good news on the development of scalable, self-limiting, genetic sexing version of genetically modified… Read more »
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#TraeTuChipo: citizen science for the surveillance of Chagas disease
This neglected disease remains a public health issue in many countries, including Venezuela. One project aims to provide real-time… Read more »
Schistosomiasis and praziquantel resistance
A study led by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reviews the recent significant advances in… Read more »
A new understanding of old pandemics
Analysis of genomes of plague bacterium from ancient burial sites are shedding light on the origins of Old-World plague pandemics.
Holy Helminths! Augustinian friars and their parasites.
A study in Cambridge investigated and compared the worm burden of friars living in a monastery in medieval England with that of… Read more »
Flaviviruses make you smell like a perfume to attract blood-seeking Aedes mosquitoes, and you might be able to take a cheap, safe drug to stop them
Krisztian Magori reviews a recent study demonstrating that flaviviruses make mice (and people) produce more of the volatile… Read more »
Determining the optimal strategies to achieve elimination of transmission for Schistosoma mansoni
Using two individual-based stochastic models, developed independently by the Imperial College London (ICL) and University of… Read more »
Schistosomes as a threat to human reproduction
Schistosomiasis is a serious threat to human sexual and reproductive health, as highlighted in this blog by Dingase Kumwneda, a… Read more »
World War C – a review of a book by Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Krisztian Magori reviews the book "World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One" by Dr.… Read more »
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