Reposted by @ic-uribarri.bsky.socialHeather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Great news - congratulations to #Niger for elimination of Onchocerciasis; great news coming on coming on World #NTD day 082
Reposted by @ic-uribarri.bsky.socialHeather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025"Dozens of clinical trials in South Asia, Africa & Latin America have been suspended. 1000s enrolled in studies have drugs, vaccines & medical devices in their bodies but no longer have access to continuing treatment or the researchers who were supervising their care" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...nytimes.comHealth Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign AidLifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work. 066
Reposted by @ic-uribarri.bsky.socialChris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 02/02/2025free speech/academic freedom warriors strike again 041
Reposted by @ic-uribarri.bsky.socialVeeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Leucochloridium paradoxum is one of the most recognisable parasites. While the oft-told story about them is that the infected snail's pulsating eyestalks attract birds which proceeds to eat them - NO ONE has ever seen this actually happen #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/12/leuc...dailyparasite.blogspot.com<i>Leucochloridium paradoxum</i> (revisited)Parasites manipulating their hosts' appearance and behaviour is one aspect of parasitology which seems to have captured the public's imagina... 513027
