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Newsletter - Issue 42
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
January 15, 2015
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Kala-azar and the law in Brazil: does it lack political vision and interest in the power’s managers? From the 88 countries where kala-azar is endemic, we are the only one considering dog culling as an instrument of public health
Pingo (real name withheld) visited at least two other Brazilian states in five years. During this time, he saw the ocean, waterfalls and the first months of a child. This was his survival time achieved after being treated for a disease called leishmaniasis. A disease that can be controlled using human-restricted drugs in Brazil and could not have been used by Pingo, who was a dog.
The expectative is that we have around 2 million people with the C virus in the Country, but less than 100 thousand are have records in the public health service. Currently we are not being able to diagnose the disease and our tracking program is flawed
The delay in releasing protocols by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa)...
Study highlights importance of nutritional immunity in fighting infectious disease
Ebola: new study is first to report vaccine success in Africa
Bat could have started the Ebola outbreak
Spaniards demand access to new drug against Hepatitis C
Motorcycles: the growth of the fleet versus flaws in the laws and illegality – By Fernando Medeiros
Chagas’ disease strikes especially people from tropical countries. Around 8 million people in the world, mostly poor, are infected
Brazil has drastically reduced the number of new annual Chagas’ disease cases since the 70s (from 150 thousand to current 200). However, the surveillance and control actions must be intensified, especially in the Amazon, where, due to its continental size, it is impossible to spray insecticide everywhere or treat every person carrying the...
Around 20% of the schizophrenia cases among North-Americans could involve Toxoplasma gondii. In the poorest countries, this rate tends to be even higher
About 30% of the world’s population is infected by one of the most intriguing parasites known to scientists, the Toxoplasma gondii. Despite harmless for most of the healthy people, scientific researches have proven the protozoa is capable of changing the behavior of human beings and animals...
Below is a selection of for this month of january of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
HIV antibodies. Antigen modification regulates competition of broad and narrow neutralizing HIV antibodies
Reversion of advanced Ebola virus disease in nonhuman primates with ZMapp
The risk for sub-clinical infections reaches its peak in individuals aging from 25 to 34 year. However, the chances of having severe infections or even death increase along with age
Both sex and age affect the risk of leptospirosis infection. This is the result of a Masters degree paper by the veterinarian doctor Igor Paploski. The study was the fifth bests in the 2014 Young Researcher Award, during the 50th Congress of the Brazilian...
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