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Neglected tropical diseases affect more than 1 billion people–one-sixth of the world's population. Despite their devastating health consequences, these diseases, which occur in some of the world's ...

It’s a disease of children living in extreme poverty. Its cause is uncertain. So is the number of children it affects. But soon, the devastating condition known as noma may be a bit less neglected.

A major health challenge of our time is when drugs no longer work to treat infections. This happens when the agents that cause infections—they may be bacteria, viruses or fungi—become resistant to the ...

Diseases that sound like the stuff of nightmares are running rampant on the world stage. A trip into Florida's brackish waters could mean an amputated limb or death thanks to the "flesh-eating" Vibrio ...

A study of migrants in Italy has shown how statistical modeling can help improve the identification of neglected tropical disease (NTD) infections. NTDs are a group of 21 diseases that ...

“The benefit of sleeping under a mosquito net.” Chromolithograph by A. Guillaume. (all images courtesy Wellcome Library) Striking visuals have long been essential to disease awareness, using art to ...

Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles' heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. The efforts of a research team from Bochum and Würzburg give hope for new ...

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The two year old girl being examined for the possibility of leprosy in Marana, Madagascar, Laetitia Bezain/dpa via Getty Images It’s sobering to reflect that “neglected tropical diseases” are referred ...

In 1998, near the end of medical school, Marcus Lacerda, MD, PhD, infectious diseases physician and director of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) at the World ...