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Para There are no effective measures against diseases like Chikungunya in borders or airports, because the person can travel during the incubation or be asymptomatic
Originated in Tanzania and disseminated throughout asian and african countries, the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) since the end of 2013, when it claimed victims in the Caribbean, it has been a concern among tropical countries from South America. "There is an alert situation regarding the chikingunya", affirms the Health Surveillance Secretary of the Health...
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The risk is the vírus establishing outside of the endemic zone, but the contention and protection measures are usually eficiente and limit the virus' dissemination
According to the World Health Organization, the ebola epidemic in West Africa is among the most frightening registered since the virus was identified for the first time in 1970, where currently is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Data updated by the WHO reads that over 140 people have died by the outbreak...
Dr. Convit was awarded with the Prince of Asturias Technical and Scientific Investigation Prize for his contribution to the knowledge of important tropical diseases
The Venezuelan physician and scientist Jacinto Convit, one of the most relevant researchers of Tropical Medicine died last Monday, May 12th, in Caracas at 100 years of age. Dr. Convit created a vaccine to prevent and cure Hansen's disease, a study that allowed him to...
A 4-year research could help unveil the mechanisms through which some microorganisms escape the host's immune response
"The research opens opportunities for several understandings that solves questions. However, has important impacts from the medical and biological points of view", highlights Dr. Diana Bahia, professor at the General Biology Department at the Federal university of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and coordinator of the 16 researchers group that developed the study for genome sequencing of the Leishmania amazonensis parasite. The 4-year research can help to clarify the mechanisms by which some microorganisms fail the host's immune response.
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Epidemiologist Michel Van Herp, from the Medecins Sans Frontieres, explaining to the population in Gbando, Guinea, what is ebola and how to prevent the transmission
In an interview to the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (SBMT), Dr. Michel Van Herp epidemiologist, from the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), talks about the ebola and its transmission. According to the expert, about 90% of those infected die, depending on the virus strain.
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Dengue: Turning up the volume on a silent disaster
3D structure of malaria parasite genome generated
WHO Report: Indoor Air Pollution Is Greatest Environmental Health Risk
40th anniversary of the Amazon Tropical Medicine Foundation
From dengue to chikingunya: the 10 most dangerous diseases of Latin America
Brazilian multidisciplinary team gives important step combatting Chagas disease
Below is a selection of for this month of may of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
Understanding care and feeding practices: building blocks for a sustainable intervention in India and Pakistan
Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report
Neglected tropical diseases. Oral antibiotic raises hopes of eradicating yaws
Immunology. Immune activation with HIV vaccines
August 03-08 2014
XIV International Course of Molecular Epidemiology in Emerging Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
Salvador/BA
August 8 and 9 - 2014
2nd Scientific Meeting of Former Residents and Intern Doctors of the ERII
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