Since 1913, research in tropical diseases has been given a great push by the cooperative efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has spent over $70,000,000 in 30 years.

The Carter Center starting focusing on neglected tropical diseases in 1986, starting with guinea worm. In 1998 it began work to end trachoma, a bacterial eye infection caused by lack of basic ...

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), in collaboration with the World Health Organization and other partners conducted a comprehensive review of Chagas disease in Switzerland ...

The risk is heightened in tropical areas after heavy rains or cyclones, and in some cases, it can be deadly. In the past 12 months, 80 people contracted the disease in the Northern Territory, and ...

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Saffron Barker has revealed she was hospitalised with a suspected ‘tropical disease’. The 24-year-old – who was the first female social media influencer to ...

Former contestant of Strictly Come Dancing, Saffron Barker, found herself in a hospital dash amid concerns she had contracted a "tropical disease". The social media influencer shared updates with ...

Paul Offit, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia vaccine expert and an FDA panel member, said he worries that approach could dampen the view of Novavax’s Covid shot, which takes longer to ...

Overall, "the death rate from parasitic diseases…is relatively low compared to some other infectious diseases", O'Brien says. The effects can be disabling and devastating, but not necessarily fatal.

Globally, more than half of patients die after infection with the neglected tropical disease, melioidosis, often before they are diagnosed. A new rapid test could save lives by diagnosing patients in ...

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