On the Italian coastline, overlooking the shimmering calm of the Adriatic Sea, I’ve been catching up with an old friend whilst finally having chance to immerse into Garcia’s Love in the Time of Cholera. Her heart for Brazil and love for all health issues regarding Mother and Child, combined with my own intrigue for emerging viruses, has led us to discuss the inevitable. The Zika Virus.
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Since it was first picked up 3 years ago, MERS-Coronavirus has gone global. During my short trip to the Philippines, I don full protective gear as I’m given the chance to see suspected cases up close and personal. We still don’t know where it came from, nor do we have any medicines to treat it.
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Under two distinct guises, a foreign fiend continues to challenge clinicians in Manila. Our world is changing, and the scope of Malaria is too. Earlier this week, I saw it with my own eyes.
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I have flown straight into back-to-back Philippine Typhoons, hearing frequent reports of floods and landslides. Looking forward to 2016, there is cautious optimism amongst scientists and clinicians for combating an altogether different geographical hazard across this region of tropics, with the potential rollout of a vaccine for Dengue Virus!
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During a whirlwind final week to the first term of Graduate Medical School, I find myself presenting amongst passionate early career researchers at a Royal Society conference, and reminded of the challenges we face in the complex field of Tropical Medicine.
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What a difference a day makes? Try two hundred and forty-five. Exactly that many days lay between the attitudes observed to the Ebola virus research updates from the annual Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Scientific Day held in May of 2014, to the ‘Topics in Infection’ conference held by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene at the end of
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Hello! Wellcome to this new blog all about tropical diseases and health. I have deliberately misspelt “welcome” to highlight the exciting news that the Wellcome Trust has appointed a Professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health as their new director; Jeremy Farrar. Tropical Disease specialist named as new Wellcome Trust Director The Wellcome trust is a charitable powerhouse when it comes
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