Global campaigns to eliminate two tropical parasitic worm infections have been hindered by good diagnostic tools. Since the turn of the century, multinational mass drug-treatment efforts have cut the number of people at risk of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis by more than half, but more than half a billion people remain at risk. The next […]
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Hyalomma: tropical tick spreads
The tropical tick Hyalomma that can transmit, among other things, stain fever, is in Germany on the rise: This year were found in 50 copies, in 2018, there were a total of 35. Experts believe that the ticks have wintered in Germany. Now, there is a first typhus case of suspicion. At the end of […]