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Newsletter - Issue 40
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine
November 15, 2014
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Dr. Ahmed Fahal said it is important to collect data on mycetoma in Brazil to be included it in a scientific article to be presented to the WHO to issue a resolution on mycetoma
Among the “neglected” diseases in the world – a group of endemic diseases that strike mainly the tropical countries, mycetoma is one of the least known. Worldwide, the attention towards the disease is scarce by physicians...
Brazil is second place in the Americas among those with greater motorcyclist mortality: 2.9 deaths for every 100 thousand inhabitants
Brazil is among the counties with greater number of accidents involving motorcycles...
Update: Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak — West Africa, October 2014
Kala-azar cases in South Sudan more than twice 2013 total
P. vivax Malaria and Dengue Fever Co-infection: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil will measure the temperature of passengers’ coming from countries with ebola cases
An increase in the number of people infected by the chikungunya fever
The next BSTM congress will debate, for example, how to make diseases like Melioidosis become part of the clinical suspicion routine in all regions of the Country
Between next June 14 and 17, Fortaleza (CE) will host one of the largest medical-scientific events, the MEDTROP 2015. One of the keys of the Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (BSTM) – which expects around 2500 participants – will be the discussion of adequate methods to combat tropical diseases from the need of Brazil’s different regions.
If we inverted the situation, and there were a reduction in poverty, probably some tropical diseases would be controlled
The incidence of tropical diseases in Latin American countries could be controlled from an income redistribution associated to sanitary and educational conditions improvements. Such solution would be a “vaccine against poverty”, said the PhD in Allergy and Immunopathology...
Below is a selection of for this month of november of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
The Ebola emergency--immediate action, ongoing strategy
Developing a dengue vaccine: progress and future challenges
Studies with this kind of approach should consider that the distribution of the cases is strongly associated to the access conditions to health units
A single community in vulnerable conditions can present different risk areas for dengue fever. This was the conclusion of a work conducted in the Pau da Lima neighborhood in Salvador, Bahia, and that was base to the Master’s thesis in Collective Health by Mariana Kikuti, defended this year at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).
November 16 and 21 - 2014
Malaria Control: From the Bench to the Field Course Agenda
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