India’s southern state of Kerala was put under a lot of stress this past May with the most recent Nipah virus outbreak. The Nipah
Year: 2018
This week on “Shedding light on NTDs”, we are taking a look at leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that spreads through the bite
The Netherlands is currently experiencing a sharp increase in cases of serogroup W meningococcal disease [1]. According to the Dutch National Institute for Health
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning on May 15, 2018 that nonessential travel to Venezuela should be avoided.
This week’s NTD topic might sound a little more familiar than the other diseases in this series. When we think about rabies in the
Welcome to the first installment of Disease Daily’s Summer Series: “Shedding Light on Neglected Tropical Diseases”. This week, we are looking at chikungunya, an
Less than one week after cases of Ebola were confirmed to have reached an urban area the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health authorities,
In late March 2018, a patient in the United Kingdom came down with the first known case of a strain of gonorrhea resistant to
Gonorrhea is the second most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world [3]. It is usually easy to treat; however, its recent
As of April 29, 2018, 13 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed on Easter Island [1]. The cases are assumed to have been