In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...

The prevention and controlling of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) are crucial to ending extreme poverty in the country in the next two decades, the Volta Regional Director of Health, Dr Chrysantus ...

The TV presenter has had many health battles over the years, including a horrible incident where she lived with a parasite ...

Hundreds of thousands of doses of moxidectin – which treats a disease caused by a parasitic worm – are being given to ...

Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a parasitic disease causing blindness and suffering, as recognised by the World ...

"I first heard about this disease during a polio vaccination campaign. That was in 2016," explains Salomon. In Businga District and across the country, Guinea-worm disease control is integrated ...

India experiences the world’s absolute burden of at least 11 NTDs, including hookworm, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, kala-azar, and rabies, representing the highest number of cases worldwide ...

Salomon Kosoma, a fisherman and farmer in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is also a community mobilizer with a strong commitment to the prevention and control of Guinea-worm ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.