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HealthDay

10/30/2018 Ebola Vaccines Show Lasting Effect

This article is about research released at the 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

The Washington Post

10/29/2018 How dogs could help eradicate malaria

This article is about research released at the 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

BBC

10/29/2018 Malaria: Sniffer dogs to help in fight to eradicate disease

This article is about research released at the 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

CNN

10/29/2018 Dogs can sniff out malaria parasites on your clothes

This article is about research released at the 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

SciDev.Net

09/30/2018 Easy sweat-based test for leishmaniasis

This article reported on a study published by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene about a non-invasive diagnostic method that relies on human sweat rather than blood samples to detect visceral leishmaniasis.

CNN

08/01/2018 They ate raw centipedes -- and then the headaches began

This article reported on a study published by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene about a dangerous foodborne parasite detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital and traced to their consumption of raw wild centipedes.

South China Morning Post

07/31/2018 Life-threatening parasite found in Chinese patients who ate raw centipedes

This article reported on a study published by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene about a dangerous foodborne parasite detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital and traced to their consumption of raw wild centipedes.

The New York Times

07/30/2018 Maybe You Were Thinking About Eating Raw Centipedes. Don’t.

This article reported on a study published by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene about a dangerous foodborne parasite detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital and traced to their consumption of raw wild centipedes.

Healio: Infectious Diseases in Children

07/25/2018 FDA approves Krintafel for P. vivax malaria prevention in teens, adults

This article includes comments from 2018 ASTMH President Regina Rabinovich, MD, about the FDA's recent approved of Krintafel for the prevention of Plasmodium vivax malaria relapse in patients aged 16 years or older.

Global Health NOW

05/08/2018 To Vex the Vectors, Look Beyond Vaccines

2017 travel award recipient Céline Mabot Yobo of Côte d'Ivoire describes how salivary biomarkers from mosquitoes are helping assess the efficacy of vector-control efforts in the fight against yellow fever.