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In sub-Saharan Africa, over 300,000 people are envenomed each year, leading to over 7,000 deaths and almost twice as many amputations.
The pace of investment to manage diseases transmissible from animals to humans is dangerously slow.
A man spent 18 years injecting himself with venom, almost dying more than once – and now his blood is behind a new snakebite treatment.
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that triggers specific immune responses in the body. Identifying those hidden immune signatures can help improve detection and treatment.
Resistance to antimicrobial drugs is a major global health challenge, so dealing with neglected tropical diseases is vital.
Cobra venom can cause tissue damage and life-changing injuries – but a cheap, common medication may be an antidote.
The World Health Organization recently recognised noma as a ‘neglected tropical disease’.
People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present in more than 120 countries, and the US is seeing an uptick in cases.
Neglected tropical diseases are often associated with social exclusion as well as physical suffering. One billion people around the world suffer from these diseases.
In rural Ghana, only 18% of patients believe elephantiasis is a disease. Some others think it is caused by curses or even rain. Only by understanding local beliefs can it be treated effectively.
Neglected tropical diseases of the skin are stigmatised, and may affect an individual’s quality of life
After nearly 40 years of effort, Guinea worm disease is on the cusp of being the second human disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated on Earth.
While Nigeria has made progress in controlling some neglected tropical diseases, it should do more as it carries a heavy burden of these diseases.
Every year, 1.7 billion people, most in the world’s poorest areas, are affected by NTDs. The diseases cause suffering, stigma, disability and sometimes death.
Even by conservative estimates, Mozambique’s snakebite figures are far higher than previously thought.
Molecular research is expensive, but worth it because of the burden of disease that it could relieve.
Progress against neglected tropical diseases is now at real risk of reversal as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ivermectin is vital for controlling a number of neglected tropical diseases, but mixed messaging and reported side-effects from its misuse against COVID could turn patients off it.
Although there is no evidence yet that it affects COVID-19 vaccines, schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, has been associated with lower vaccine immunity for several vaccines.
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