Human Parasitic Disease Unit, re-elected by the WHO as a world benchmark in human fascioliasis
4 march 2016
The Human Parasitic Disease Unit of the Universitat de València has been re-elected by the World Health Organization as a Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) and a world benchmark in human fascioliasis, a pathology considered by the international organization inside the group of the called priority neglected diseases and which affects 17 million people
Schistosomiasis reaches Europe
3 march 2016
Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic parasitic disease caused by blood flatworms (trematodes) of Schistosoma type. It is calculated that at least 258 million people needed treatment in 2014.
Professor Santiago Mas-Coma awarded with the Llama Rotaria Prize in Sciences
1 march 2016
What are soil-transmitted helminthiasis?
26 february 2016
The soil-transmitted helminthiasis are one of the most common parasitism in the world affecting the poorest and most disadvantaged communities.
Workshop on Chagas at the UV
25 february 2016
Conference on the Zika virus: an international emergency
18 february 2016
Zika and abortion, debate in Brazil
16 february 2016
More children are born with microcephaly in Brazil supposedly because of Zika virus. This is generating a debate on abortion laws of the country, which provide that it is illegal in the majority of the circumstances.
Diagnosis of Neglected Diseases: molecules and tropics
15 february 2016
Molecular diagnosis brings new possibilities to the treatment and attention of neglected diseases.
The WHO expert, the professor Mas-Coma, answers about the current epidemic of the Zika virus
12 february 2016
We interview the President-elect of the International Federation of Tropical Medicine on the relationships between the Zika virus epidemic, the neglected or forgotten diseases, the climate change and the global change.
Valencia’s Hospital General meets up to inform about the Zika
11 february 2016
The Hospital General Universitario de Valencia celebrated Wednesday 10 February a briefing addressed to all professionals in the department and to all those interested in knowing the situation and characteristics of the Zika virus.
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