Malaria is a major public health threat in tropical and subtropical countries. In 2015, an estimated 212 million malaria cases occurred worldwide, resulting in 429000 deaths. Malaysia's aim to eliminate malaria by year 2020 ...
Mar 13, 2018
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Research led by the University of Oxford has revealed how the complex cultural and social environment in developing countries can complicate the use of new diagnostic technologies to fight the global superbug crisis.
Mar 9, 2018
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A more intensive biomedical research approach is necessary to control and ultimately eliminate tuberculosis (TB), according to a perspective published in the March 2018 issue of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and ...
Mar 9, 2018
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An August 2016 call to an infectious disease hotline OHSU runs for Northwest physicians ended up being one for the record books.
Feb 13, 2018
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An estimated 120 million people worldwide are infected with lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic, mosquito-borne disease that can cause major swelling and deformity of the legs, a condition known as elephantiasis. Health-care ...
Oct 17, 2017
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New studies released today in a special supplement of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene add to the evidence that over the last decade, global malaria control efforts have saved millions of children's lives ...
Sep 28, 2017
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Hookworm infection is commonly seen in resource-limited areas of Latin America, China and Africa, but problems with poor sanitation linked to extreme poverty also have resulted in a recurrence or persistence of the infection ...
Sep 7, 2017
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Excessive and improper applications of insecticides and other agriculture chemicals in local fruit orchards may have triggered an outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), a condition often associated with deadly inflammation ...
Jul 24, 2017
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Washing with soap and water is second nature for many. But in many other places around the world, handwashing with soap is rare.
Jun 26, 2017
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Though transmission of malaria was wiped out in the United States decades ago and infections are falling in parts of the developing world, malaria hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S. appear to be far more common than ...
Apr 24, 2017
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