Congratulations! You survived 2021!
If you’re reading this blogpost, one thing is for sure, you survived 2021! This is an achievement in and of itself, given that 3,503,696 people
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Could SARS-CoV-2 become a zoonosis?
The World Health Organisation regards a zoonosis as “any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to
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Surveillance of insecticide reistance mutations in local Anopheles populations in Cabo Verde
Insecticide resistance The recent World malaria report highlights resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes (the major vectors of malaria) to at least one
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Une histoire sur un timbre: the recent history of malaria events told through stamps
Small as they may be, stamps have long been used to commemorate events (e.g. anniversaries, sporting events, world observance days), prominent people
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Why we should reconsider population data for disease control and public health progammes
Where do we see population data? Ideally, all countries worldwide would have regularly updated and easily accessible population data. For effective
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From the wild and the tame – zoonotic parasites
The Special Issue, Zoonotic parasites: The One Health challenge published in Parasitology Research, provides an update on wildlife and domestic
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Linking a disease to knowledge of its vector: River blindness and black flies
The connection between intermediate hosts or vectors and infection with parasitic diseases is not intuitive. Indeed, the method by which humans and
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The increasing human health costs of climate change, highlighted by the 2021 Lancet Countdown report
Climate change is an existential threat to the survival of a host of human cultures, traditions, languages, and people, potentially including the
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Leading the charge towards an effective vaccine against the human liver fluke
Opisthorchiasis Opisthorchiasis is a disease caused by infection with parasitic flat worms (trematodes) from the genus Opistorchis, specifically
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What factors drive persistent schistosomiasis infections in hotspot communities.
Schistosomiasis in Uganda Schistosomiasis is a debilitating, and highly prevalent, parasitic disease, transmitted through fresh water contact and
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Risky rodent landscapes: where will zoonotic infections become more common?
There are over 2000 species of rodents across the globe. They are the most diverse Order of mammals and occupy habitats in every continent except
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Is toxoplasmosis a COVID risk factor?
Epidemics and plagues have decimated societies since pre-historic times, but as travel has become easier, their reach has expanded, creating
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What do you know about malaria?
There is a lot of information out there! The internet has enabled us to find pretty much any information we are looking for very quickly, and various
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Wolbachia to the rescue – reducing dengue just like a COVID-19 vaccine
Dengue is a dangerous and debilitating vector-borne disease in many tropical and subtropical parts of the world, infecting 100 million people and
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Traditional surveillance approaches in collaboration with citizen science improves the known distribution of invasive Aedes japonicus in Spain
Mosquito species from the genus Aedes are major vectors of viral and parasitic diseases of humans and animals, worldwide. Several species in