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Newsletter - Issue 67 |
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Eilat virus is used as platform for Chikungunya vaccine
Results are promising, since the most recent reports show the chikungunya virus can be harsher than the dengue and zika viruses Researchers in Texas have announced the development of the first chikungunya fever vaccine made with an insect-specific virus, which they hope will now be evaluated in clinical trials. During the laboratory tests, the vaccine developed a strong immune defense... 
Another vaccine is under development to protect against the Sudan strain, different from the Zaire strain, present in West Africa Ebola: after 40 years, we finally have an effective vaccine against the diseaseThe World Health Organization (WHO) has informed that the final trials of the experimental vaccine against Ebola retuned results showing the new drug can provides high protection against the virus. No cases of the disease were reported among the 6 thousand people who received the vaccine in Guinea in 2016, against the 23 cases among non-immunized people. The vaccine, named rVSV-ZEBOV, has a 100% efficacy in the 10 days after... 
In the upper left: Chrysaora lactea, the jellyfish linked to the mass accidents in the South region. In the upper right, Olindias sambaquiensis, another jellyfish involved in mass accidents, however, in lower scale. In the bottom left, Lychnorrhiza lucerna, common in the area, but not involved in the accidents. In the bottom right: typical accident by Chrysaora or Olindias, with irregular and non-linear marks Jellyfish accidents happen for a long time in South Brazil, but not at the current levelsThe serial accidents caused by jellyfish in South Brazil are not news. These poisonings, that always occurred sporadically, have happened more frequently in the past 5 years in the Paraná and Santa Catarina coasts, with a gradual increase in the number of patients, until reaching the impressive 12 thousand patients in Paraná and 6 thousand in Santa Catarina, since mid-December until early February.
Motorcycles: Education, intense control and helmet use could make their use safer
Growing number of deaths by motorcycle accidents are alarming The third edition of the "Picture of Traffic Safety" report shows that, in the 12 years the study assessed, motorcycle accidents became the main cause of traffic deaths. |
Over half of the young women postpone pregnancy afraid of the Zika virus impact
Black and dark-skinned women are the vulnerable ethnicities that cannot move away from the epidemic, unlike the elites. This is another element of inequality in this public health emergency A study at Brasilia University (UnB) assessed over 2,000 Brazilian women, aging from 18 to 39 years-old. 
Malaria infection depends on number of parasites, not number of mosquito bites World still "grossly underprepared" for infectious disease outbreaks African trees kill both malaria mosquitoes and the parasite Yellow fever outbreak will spread throughout the country, who says Yellow fever outbreak is the worst in 10 years, brazilian moh data shows Specialist warns risk of yellow fever urbanization in brazil 
Below is a selection of for this month of february of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals. Rethinking the Ban - The U.S. Blood Supply and Men Who Have Sex with Men. 
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From 11 to 14 june 2017 6th International Conference of Research on Plasmodium vivax malaria
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Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine - Center for Tropical Medicine - UnB |
