Public health campaigns had made significant strides toward eradicating diseases like elephantitis and river blindness. But this progress has since unraveled with the second Trump administration.
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So far there have been 221 cases of melioidosis and 31 deaths from the disease in 2025. A microbiologist explains what to know about this infection.
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.
Climate change is causing this disease to spread in Southern Europe, but governments are doing little to prevent it.
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.
New research shows mosquitoes spread Buruli ulcer. So reducing mosquito populations and avoiding bites is critical.
Something unusual seems to be happening with dengue, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne viral disease.
Among young children, adolescents and adult women, anemia strikes 1 in 3 globally. Most cases are driven by dietary iron deficiency, red blood cell disorders and untreated tropical diseases.
Backyard mosquitoes can be more than just annoying pests. Their bites can spread the pathogens that make us sick.
The Gambia’s success in eliminating trachoma means that resources previously allocated to combating the disease can now be reallocated to other public health conditions
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Facebook groups exist to share information about most classes of animals and plants, and these communities have unprecedented observational power.
The World Health Organisation has a plan to halve deaths and disability from snakebites
There’s a big market for new treatments for TB, malaria and other ailments. But most of these diseases afflict low-income people unable to pay for medicine.
Lassa outbreaks are becoming more widespread in Nigeria but have not been given national emergency status like Ebola.
Simple steps can lower your risk of bringing home traveller’s diarrhoea, respiratory infections and mosquito-borne diseases from your holiday.
There’s a new weapon against mosquitoes that spreads diseases such as dengue and yellow fever – more mosquitoes.
As Australia joins a New York summit to discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it still faces questions over whether it is meeting water standards at home.
They spread disease and misery and account for millions of deaths every year. There’s not a lot to be said for mosquitoes.
The federal government’s recent White Paper on developing northern Australia has disturbing echoes of the 1890s, a time when unbridled capitalism and indentured labour developed the North.
After a decade of research, an international team decoded the genes of the tsetse fly – the transmitter of trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. Human trypanosomiasis is a widespread tropical disease…
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Group Leader, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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Honorary Fellow Nossal Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Physician, The University of Melbourne
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Professor of Protozoology, University of Bristol
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Research Fellow in African Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Emeritus Professor of Parasitology, Keele University
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School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland
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(Formerly) Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Principal Scientific Officer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Postgraduate student, University of Benin
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Janet Dora Hine Professor, University of Sydney