It's called noma and is a disease of poverty, striking mainly children. Most patients die. Survivors are badly disfigured. Now there's a campaign to add it to the list of neglected tropical diseases ...

The World Health Organization is currently considering a request to make noma the 21st neglected tropical disease on its list. Elevating noma from “neglected-neglected,” as it’s been called ...

That's according to a statement submitted to Congress by the Neglected Tropical Diseases Roundtable ... filariasis," "schistosomiasis," and "human African trypanosomiasis," to list just a few of the ...

Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever head the list of tropical diseases to be fought in World War II by the U.S. Medical Corps. Of the three, malaria, against which there is no true prophylactic, is ...

12 December 2024 - A year after noma was included on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs) list, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues its work to encourage early ...

As in almost every war in the past, the dysenteries, which occurred in approximately 6700 out of each 100,000 men, headed the list of the tropical diseases in World War II.

It's called noma and is a disease of poverty, striking mainly children. Most patients die. Survivors are badly disfigured. Now there's a campaign to add it to the list of neglected tropical diseases ...

Hotez, who has long crusaded against parasitic worms and co-authored the 2005 paper that rebranded them as "neglected tropical diseases," worked closely with the George W. Bush White House and ...