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The 14 most frequent question on the Zika
3 february 2016

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Zika infection is already an international public health emergency. In its site, it lays out and answers 14 questions on the virus. With this post, we aim at giving you all the information you need.
Transgenic mosquitoes against the Zika
1 february 2016

The new control method established in an area of Latin America is fighting Zika focused on the elimination of the mosquito that transmits it through the release of transgenic mosquitoes.
Pilot Plan in Mozambique to eradicate Malaria
29 january 2016

If the plan is effective it will be launched in more places so as to eliminate a disease that affects much of the African continent. The plan consists of several parts , here we will explain.
The WHO claims that the Zika will extend throughout America except for Chile and Canada, why?
28 january 2016

The World Health Organization (WHO ) says the virus Zika will expand throughout America because of the existence in these areas of the mosquito that transmits the disease. But Canada and Chile will be saved from the epidemic.
The Zika virus lands in Spain
26 january 2016

The Zika reach Spain by two South American women who came to Catalonia after having been in their country. The Ministry of Health warns that the alert is "real" and emphasizes the epidemiological point of view of the disease.
The Department of Cell Biology and Parasitology of the UV researches intestinal helminths as regulators for immunopathology
20 january 2016

The Department of Cell Biology and Parasitology of the Universitat de València has been developing, for years now, a research line addressed to the study of immune responses to intestinal helminths.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warn travellers about the Zika virus
19 january 2016

On Friday 16 January The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel alert in which warned people on the risks of travelling to the American countries affected by the Zika virus, linked to a microcephaly epidemic in Brazil.
The paper of Helminths in the treatment of autoimmune diseases
18 january 2016

In the last century, the prevalence of different autoimmune diseases has continued to grow in industrialised countries. However, in the developing countries the incidences of these diseases are constant and relatively low.
Molecular diagnosis and tropical diseases
13 january 2016

The molecular diagnosis could help cure tropical diseases effectively. This method has been in place 20 years but has never been applied to tropical diseases. The book 'Diagnosis of neglected diseases: molecules and tropic' deals with it.
Zika virus and pregnancy: epidemic of microcephaly in Brazil
11 january 2016

The cases of newborns with microcephaly has massively increased in the last year in Brazil, which has declared a health emergency and suspect the correlation between the disease with the Zika virus .