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Study Explores Role Of Nutrition On Risk Of Dengue Virus Infection

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
A new study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators disproves reports that well-fed children are more vulnerable to the dengue virus. Mosquitoes spread the virus, which can cause severe flu-like symptoms and sometimes lethal complications... ...

read more A new study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators disproves reports that well-fed children are more vulnerable to the dengue virus. Mosquitoes spread the virus, which can cause severe flu-like symptoms and sometimes lethal complications... read more Sun Mar 2010

UNITAID Statement On Launch Of MASSIVEGOOD

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
UNITAID welcomes the announcement today of the MASSIVEGOOD initiative, established to provide additional funding for UNITAID's work in expanding access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis... ...

read more UNITAID welcomes the announcement today of the MASSIVEGOOD initiative, established to provide additional funding for UNITAID's work in expanding access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis... read more Sun Mar 2010

Finding New Ways To Disarm Deadly South American Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
New World hemorrhagic fevers are emerging infectious diseases found in South America that can cause terrible, Ebola-like symptoms. Current treatments are expensive and only partially effective... ...

read more New World hemorrhagic fevers are emerging infectious diseases found in South America that can cause terrible, Ebola-like symptoms. Current treatments are expensive and only partially effective... read more Sun Mar 2010

WHO's Updated Malaria Guidelines Include Rapid Diagnosis, New ACT

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
The WHO on Tuesday released new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, which recommend "parasitological testing before treatment begins" and add "a new artemisinin based combination treatment [ACT] to the list of prescribed drugs," BMJ News reports... ...

read more The WHO on Tuesday released new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, which recommend read more Sun Mar 2010

Researchers Study Mosquito Genes To Learn How They Survive A Parasite That Causes Malaria

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
By unraveling the mysteries that exist within the molecular composition of mosquitoes, a team of Kansas State University researchers is trying to discover how the insects survive a parasite that causes malaria in humans. Kristin Michel, K-State assistant professor in the Division of Biology, has bee ...

read more By unraveling the mysteries that exist within the molecular composition of mosquitoes, a team of Kansas State University researchers is trying to discover how the insects survive a parasite that causes malaria in humans. Kristin Michel, K-State assistant professor in the Division of Biology, has bee read more Fri Mar 2010

Human Health Benefits Predicted Following Sequencing Of Southern African Genomes

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
Human genomes from Southern African Bushmen and Bantu individuals have been sequenced by a team of scientists seeking a greater understanding of human genetic variation and its effect on human health. The study's findings will be published in the journal Nature on 18 February 2010... ...

read more Human genomes from Southern African Bushmen and Bantu individuals have been sequenced by a team of scientists seeking a greater understanding of human genetic variation and its effect on human health. The study's findings will be published in the journal Nature on 18 February 2010... read more Fri Mar 2010

Media Examine Efforts To Eradicate Guinea Worm

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
Agence France-Presse reports on efforts to eradicate Guinea worm, a "painful water-borne parasite that can leave people weakened and sick for months every year" (2/17). "Once common across Africa and Asia, with some 3... ...

read more Agence France-Presse reports on efforts to eradicate Guinea worm, a read more Fri Mar 2010

A New Type Of Genetic Variation Could Strengthen Natural Selection

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection - the force that drives evolution - is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought... ...

read more The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection - the force that drives evolution - is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought... read more Fri Mar 2010

Also In Global Health News: Parasite, Bacteria Survival Discovery; Polio Vaccine Campaign; Sanitary Kits In Kenya; Sierra Leone Maternal Mortality

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
Discovery Of Chemical Reaction Process Could Lead To New Malaria, TB Treatments Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say that a recent finding could help develop new treatments to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, KWMU reports (LaCapra, 2/15)... ...

read more Discovery Of Chemical Reaction Process Could Lead To New Malaria, TB Treatments Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say that a recent finding could help develop new treatments to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, KWMU reports (LaCapra, 2/15)... read more Fri Mar 2010

Mechanism Malaria Parasite Uses To Spread Among Red Blood Cells Identified By UCR Researcher

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
Malaria remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Yet, how Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, regulates its infectious cycle has remained an enigma despite decades of rigorous research... ...

read more Malaria remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Yet, how Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, regulates its infectious cycle has remained an enigma despite decades of rigorous research... read more Fri Mar 2010

Malaria Research Must Be Based In Africa

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
Organisations supporting medical research in Africa, for example research on malaria, cannot assume that scientific results are independent of time and space. Instead the results reflect the interplay between the research environment, researchers and the study object. This is the result of a dissert ...

read more Organisations supporting medical research in Africa, for example research on malaria, cannot assume that scientific results are independent of time and space. Instead the results reflect the interplay between the research environment, researchers and the study object. This is the result of a dissert read more Fri Mar 2010

Flightless Mosquito Engineered To Fight Dengue

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
US and British researchers have genetically engineered a strain of flightless mosquito that may help curb the spread of Dengue fever, a flulike disease that is endemic to over 100 countries and affects tens of millions of people every year... ...

read more US and British researchers have genetically engineered a strain of flightless mosquito that may help curb the spread of Dengue fever, a flulike disease that is endemic to over 100 countries and affects tens of millions of people every year... read more Fri Mar 2010

Haitian President Says Up To 300,000 People Could Have Died In Quake

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
The major earthquake in January in Haiti could have killed as many as 300,000 people, an estimate that includes bodies buried in the rubble, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday at a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Mexico, Reuters reports. "More than 200,000 bodies ...

read more The major earthquake in January in Haiti could have killed as many as 300,000 people, an estimate that includes bodies buried in the rubble, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday at a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Mexico, Reuters reports. read more Fri Mar 2010

Typhoid Fever Bacteria Collect On Gallstones To Perpetuate Disease

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
A new study suggests that the bacteria that cause typhoid fever collect in tiny but persistent communities on gallstones, making the infection particularly hard to fight in so-called "carriers" - people who have the disease but show no symptoms... ...

read more A new study suggests that the bacteria that cause typhoid fever collect in tiny but persistent communities on gallstones, making the infection particularly hard to fight in so-called read more Fri Mar 2010

$12.7 Million To Further Malaria Research

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
A research program that aims to better understand malaria infection and develop treatments and vaccines for the disease has been awarded $12.7 million (US$11.5 million) by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)... ...

read more A research program that aims to better understand malaria infection and develop treatments and vaccines for the disease has been awarded $12.7 million (US$11.5 million) by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)... read more Fri Mar 2010

Blair Talks About Combating Malaria In Nigeria, Part Of 3-Nation African Trip

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
"Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Saturday called for concerted efforts to combat malaria in Nigeria which accounts for a quarter of the [nearly] one million malaria deaths annually in Africa," Agence France-Presse writes (2/20). Blair is scheduled to visit Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leo ...

Sanaria Inc. Receives Multi-Year U.S. NIH Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant To Develop A Genetically Attenuated Malaria Vaccine

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
Sanaria Inc. has received additional support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health in the form of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant. The three-year award totaling approximately $3 million will support coll ...

read more Sanaria Inc. has received additional support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health in the form of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant. The three-year award totaling approximately $3 million will support coll read more Fri Mar 2010

Flightless Mosquitoes Could Fight Dengue, Study Says

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
By rendering female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - the dengue virus vector - unable to fly, scientists say they may be able to slow the spread of the virus which experts believe "affects up to 100 million people a year and threatens over a third of the world's population," the BBC reports. Currently, th ...

read more By rendering female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - the dengue virus vector - unable to fly, scientists say they may be able to slow the spread of the virus which experts believe read more Fri Mar 2010

Millennium Development Goals Being 'missed' Due To Narrow Disease Focus

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
Problems controlling common diseases like HIV, heart disease and diabetes in poor countries could be hindering efforts to meet the world's key child health and tuberculosis goals, a new study published in PLoS Medicine has warned... ...

read more Problems controlling common diseases like HIV, heart disease and diabetes in poor countries could be hindering efforts to meet the world's key child health and tuberculosis goals, a new study published in PLoS Medicine has warned... read more Fri Mar 2010

Mosquitoes, Rather Than Birds, May Have Been Main Carriers Of West Nile Virus

Categorie : Tropical Diseases
West Nile virus set the country abuzz when it rapidly spread from coast to coast just a few years after arriving in the United States. Most experts assumed birds were responsible for moving the virus across the country, but a paper published in the journal Molecular Ecology finds that smaller wings ...

read more West Nile virus set the country abuzz when it rapidly spread from coast to coast just a few years after arriving in the United States. Most experts assumed birds were responsible for moving the virus across the country, but a paper published in the journal Molecular Ecology finds that smaller wings read more Fri Mar 2010

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