Antibody Shows Promise for Developing Hantavirus Treatment
An international research team discovered the first human antibody to effectively neutralize two types of hantaviruses in animal models, according ...
Tag: Neglected Tropical Diseases
ASTMH 2021 Annual Meeting
The American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) will gather virtually from 17-21 November for the Annual Meeting of ...
Ivermectin: Misuse Against COVID Risks Undermining Its Use for Other Diseases
If you live in a western country, prior to the pandemic you probably hadn’t heard of the medicine ivermectin. It’s ...
Barriers to Eradicating Elephantiasis—A Debilitating Disease Spread By Mosquitoes
Lymphatic filariasis is one of the world’s leading causes of permanent and long-term disability. Sometimes referred to as Elephantiasis tropica, ...
Emerging Infections Network – Managing Travelers Who Acquire Disease Abroad
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY CDC research activities regarding international travelers at multiple sites are limited. Proposals are now being accepted under a ...
NIH Grants to Fund Studies of Parasitic Infections Affecting Millions Worldwide
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received two grants from the National Institutes of Health ...
Study Indicates The Need to Revise Protocol for Detecting Zika in Placenta
Shortly after the explosion in microcephaly cases caused by Zika virus in Brazil in 2015-16, several scientific studies were published ...
Study Finds One Third of Cambodians Infected with Threadworm
Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted threadworm that is endemic in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Now, researchers reporting ...
2018 Conference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases (CCRRD)
The Conference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases - CCRRD 2018 - will be held November 28, 2018 in Rockville, Maryland. ...
Promising Leprosy Vaccine Candidate
Characterized by the World Health Organization as a "neglected tropical disease," leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease) is caused by ...
What Does Warming Planet Mean for Mosquito-Bourne Diseases?
Workers in Ecuador spray insecticide to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue, chikungunya and Zika diseases. Credit: Dany Krom ...
New Scoring System Predicts Ebola Severity
While Ebola virus disease (EVD) is notorious for being one of the world's most deadly infections, it actually has a ...
NIAID’s Pre-Clinical Models of Infectious Diseases Program
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) has a requirement to ...
Zika Virus Linked to Stillbirth, Other Symptoms In Brazil
In January, a pregnant Brazilian woman infected with the Zika virus had a stillborn baby who had signs of severe ...
Conducting Public Health Research in Kenya
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is soliciting for cooperative agreement partners to improve biosecurity and public health ...
Rapid Screening Method to Identify Ebola Drugs
Credit: Shutterstock Researchers have demonstrated the use of a mini-genome system as a quick screening method to evaluate candidate drugs ...
Role of Poverty in Ebola Transmission Rates
Researchers from the Liberian Ministry of Health and the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modelling and Analysis evaluated 3532 Ebola ...
Rapid Diagnostic Developed for Deadly Sleeping Sickness
Trypanosoma brucei parasites from mammalian host. Credit: Dr. Mae Melvin/CDC, adapted. Scientists at the University of Kent have developed a ...
Successful R&D Collaborations for Neglected Tropical Diseases
BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) today released its second compilation of WIPO Re:Search collaboration stories featuring partnerships accelerating neglected ...
Infectious Disease Experts Gather for IDWeek 2015
Internationally-recognized infectious disease experts nationwide will gather this week in San Diego for the 4th annual IDWeek Oct. 7-11. IDWeek ...
