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 naturally occurring… Read more »
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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 recently been… Read more »
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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 »
Malaria Prevention in Rural Cambodia
A new study in Malaria Journal examines the challenges of studying and preventing the disease in rural Cambodia and points to… Read more »
Under our feet…soil bacterium highly virulent against malaria mosquito
A team based in Burkino Faso show that Chromobacterium anophelis sp. nov. IRSSSOUMB001 – a bacterial strain native to the… Read more »
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… Read more »
Good news in the fight against vector-borne diseases
Krisztian Magori practices gratitude for the good news on the development of scalable, self-limiting, genetic sexing version of… Read more »
#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
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