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EpiCore RFIs: Dengue Fever in São Joaquim da Barra, Brazil

January 28, 2019January 25, 2023 Natalia Ciesielska

Image courtesy of mcgmatt on Flickr, CC At this time of year, it is dengue season in Brazil, and the city of São Joaquim da

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EpiCore RFIs: Hantavirus in Epuyén, Argentina

December 18, 2018January 25, 2023 Natalia Ciesielska

Image courtesy of Phil Moyer on Flickr, CC Argentina recently observed a unique occurrence of successive Hantavirus cases in Epuyén, all of which were related

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EpiCore RFIs: Mysterious Illness Found to be Influenza in Nepal

September 17, 2018 Katherine Churchwell

  On 11 September 2018, HealthMap noted a news- media report of a mystery disease in Kanchanrup Municipality of Saptari in Nepal. The original report

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EpiCore RFIs: Mysterious Illness Found to be Influenza in Nepal

September 17, 2018 Katherine Churchwell

  On 11 September 2018, HealthMap noted a news- media report of a mystery disease in Kanchanrup Municipality of Saptari in Nepal. The original report

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EpiCore RFIs: Influenza on Emirates Flight 203

September 14, 2018 Emily Cohn

  On 5 September 2018, HealthMap noted multiple news-media reports and twitter posts of sick passengers on an Emirates flight, which had landed at John

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Buruli Ulcer

September 12, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

    This week’s NTD is a condition that is produced by a bacterium belonging to the same family of microbes that cause leprosy and

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Foodborne Trematode Infections

September 5, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  Summer is the time of year when public health messaging reminds us of foodborne infections from bacteria like Salmonella, E.coli and Listeria. While these

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases

August 15, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  To further our NTD discussion from last week, this week we will be discussing soil-transmitted helminthiases. These are intestinal infections caused by parasitic worms,

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Schistosomiasis

August 8, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  As we continue to dive into the world of neglected tropical diseases, we find ourselves examining schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease whose impact reaches 200

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Leprosy

August 1, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  When a 4,000-year-old skeleton located in Rajasthan, India was unearthed in 2009, archeologists were not expecting to find Mycobacterium leprae present (1). This finding provided

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