Former dengue patients who contract Covid-19 could experience more severe symptoms, a small study has suggested, raising concerns that countries in Asia, where mosquito-borne diseases are endemic, could face a "double burden" at a time health systems are stretched thin by the coronavirus pandemic. The study, published in May by the University of Oxford's peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, analysed.
On May 27th, delegates at the seventy-fourth World Health Assembly endorsed adding World NTD Day to the World Health Organisation’s official global calendar. World NTD Day was informally launched in 2020 to galvanise the global health community and engage the general public in the urgent effort to ..
Today, delegates participating in the virtual Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly endorsed a decision recognizing 30 January as World Neglected Tropical.