by Medical College of Wisconsin Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent a group of about 20 conditions that affect more than a billion people worldwide. They are diseases of poverty that impact people living in the poorest communities in terms of wealth, infrastructure, and access to sanitation. They take health away; and...
JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DR MARK PEARSON WITH SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM – THE PARASITIC BLOOD FLUKES THAT SPREAD SCHISTOSOMIASIS CREDIT: PHOTO: ROMY BULLERJAHN Researchers have made important progress towards a new diagnostic test for schistosomiasis, which could help the World Health Organisation (WHO) achieve its goal of interrupting transmission of the disease, and eventually eliminating it....
