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This will be the largest Tropical Medicine congress that has ever taken place in Brazil. Profound and decisive approaches will be taken on health and the integration of the tropics, with debated by scientists dedicated to the theme
Progress and challenges for malaria control and health problems such as Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and dengue fever, as well as various bacterial, viral and fungal infections will be on the agenda, during the roundtables and conferences of the XVIII International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Malaria. The event, which takes place on September 23-27, in Rio de Janeiro, promoted by the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (SBMT) in partnership with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), is an opportunity to exchange experiences.
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Researchers have been warning for years that parasites resistant to even the most modern medicines - artemisinin-based ones - are emerging along the Thailand-Cambodia border
Counterfeit and low quality malaria drugs are a growing threat in fighting the disease. The information was published in the New York Times . The problem, according to Dr. Pedro Tauil, physician, epidemiologist and Tropical Medicine doctor, is that counterfeiting encourages parasite resistance to drugs, making...
This year the occurrence of Nile fever has had a different aspect and the combination of several factors has promoted the transmission: high temperatures and rainfall create better conditions for vectors to adapt
A total of 1,590 cases of West Nile virus (WNV), including 66 deaths, have been reported this year in the United States. This is the largest number of human casualties reported since 1999, the year in which the mosquito-borne disease was detected in the country, according to information released by Reuters news agency.
The vaccine, developed in partnership with the US National Health Institutes, has been tested in the North American continent and is safe. Butatan forecasts the beginning of the first phase of testing in 2012
Over the past 50 years, the number of dengue cases in the world has multiplied. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 200 million new cases per year. To try to reverse the situation, several groups of scientists around the world devote time, money and effort into producing a vaccine: an immunobiological substance able to fight all four serotypes at one time.
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The space, which provides differentiated service to patients with zoonosis, arose from the specific demand of patients who had difficulties in being treated in general medicine outpatient clinics - infectious diseases, dermatology, among others
"In Brazil there is no other outpatient clinic for zoonosis. We do not know of any other initiative like this in the world." This statement by Dr. Marcos Vinicius da Silva, director of the Scientific Division of the Emílio Ribas Institute of Infectious...
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Brazil multiplies by 75 its donations of food to countries with famine
Angola starts pre-elimination process of malaria in 2015
Genetic research reveals barriers to combat malaria
Research relates parasite to suicide attempts
Allergies may have arisen to protect against toxins
Low income and high population density are risk factors for tuberculosis
Nobel defends fee to tackle AIDS
Cameroon: Success in the struggle against vertical transmission of AIDS
People with natural immunity to rabies identified in Peru
Collar with insecticide to prevent leishmaniasis is tested in Teresina
City of Congo witnessing early stage of the Ebola epidemic
Warrior or Victim? How Shall We Live in the Face of the Continuing AIDS Plague?
WHO: Democratic Republic of Congo reports Ebola outbreak
New book on malaria tells story of Plasmodium falciparum Genome Project
Estudio detecta la presencia de mosquitos tropicales en Polonia
Are humans to blame for the world's most significant global pandemics?
West Sussex charity to map blindness disease
Health and Science - NOTEBOOK: Ross discovers malaria cells in a mosquito's stomach
From Bill Gates, a toilet challenge spills forth
Why you should want a vampire bat bite
Bird Flu Jumps to Seals, Humans Could Be Next
Depression could be Third World disease
No Teen Oral Sex "Epidemic" Says New CDC Study
Suicide 'epidemic' in Army: July was worst month, Pentagon says
Dengue panic sweeps but Kolkata Municipal Corporation sleeps
Century-old tuberculosis vaccine may reverse diabetes
West Nile: Dallas Uses Aerial Spraying for the First Time in More than 45 Years
Antisense approach promising for treatment of parasitic infections
September,
19 to 21
RSTMH 2012 biennial meeting -'Discovery and Delivery of New Paradigms in Global Health' - Warwick, UK
September,
23 to 27
44th Annual Conference of the Society for Vector Ecology
Golf Village Resort and Convention Center in St. Augustine, Florida
September,
23 to 27
XVIII Internacional Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria - Rio de Janeiro/RJ
September,
23 to 27
XLVIII Congress of the Brazilian Society for Tropical Medicine
Rio de Janeiro/RJ
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