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AlertaChirimacha: Tracking Kissing Bugs Byte by Byte

Zachary Stavrou-Dowd

With the success of kissing bug control programmes, monitoring these vectors of Chagas disease is becoming more and more difficult. New work in Peru… Read more »

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sNailed it: Unlocking the potential of citizen science to control and prevent snail-borne diseases

Noelia Valderrama

A groundbreaking approach, the ATRAP project - Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic diseases - uses a Citizen Science approach to… Read more »

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Target-based discovery of a broad-spectrum flukicide: safegaurding the future of antihelmintic chemotherapy

20/10/2023

Daniel Parsons

The development of novel, broad-spectrum antihelmintics is a major priority for ensuring the future of effective chemotheraptuic… Read more »

Parasites, vectors and vector-borne diseases in the news

13/10/2023

Krisztian Magori

Krisztian Magori shares some of the news items he picked up recently about the WHO recommendation of new malaria and dengue… Read more »

Happy 10th birthday to BugBitten

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06/10/2023

Hilary Hurd

I find it hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the BugBitten blog was born. Initiated by board members of Parasites… Read more »

Lessons from the successful elimination of trachoma in Togo

29/09/2023

Karina Mondragon-Shem

In May 2022, Togo was validated by the WHO for a significant milestone: its elimination of trachoma as a public health problem.… Read more »

September’s BugBitten puzzler

22/09/2023

Srimathy Sriskantharajah

Join us for a coffee/ tea break and enjoy our parasite themed puzzles

A Tale of Two Conferences

01/09/2023

Krisztian Magori

Krisztian Magori reports on two very different conferences he attended over the summer, and what he learned at them, both about… Read more »

Locally acquired malaria in Europe and the US

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25/08/2023

Srimathy Sriskantharajah

In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the… Read more »

New report of a bacterium that blocks malaria transmission

11/08/2023

Hilary Hurd

It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a… Read more »