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Great news - congratulations to #Niger for elimination of Onchocerciasis; great news coming on coming on World #NTD day
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🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV
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🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV
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January 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Gosh, this is going to mean so many thought pieces about free speech, right? Right? RIGHT? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Federal websites scrub vaccine data and LGBT references after Trump order
The Trump administration has asked federal agencies to cull webpages devoted to gender diversity and sexual health.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Gosh, this is going to mean so many thought pieces about free speech, right? Right? RIGHT? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Dozens of clinical trials in South Asia, Africa & Latin America have been suspended. 1000s enrolled in studies have drugs, vaccines & medical devices in their bodies but no longer have access to continuing treatment or the researchers who were supervising their care" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Dozens of clinical trials in South Asia, Africa & Latin America have been suspended. 1000s enrolled in studies have drugs, vaccines & medical devices in their bodies but no longer have access to continuing treatment or the researchers who were supervising their care" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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free speech/academic freedom warriors strike again
It appears the right is really triggered now. They’ve gone from banning books to banning words.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
free speech/academic freedom warriors strike again
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Leucochloridium paradoxum is one of the most recognisable parasites.
While the oft-told story about them is that the infected snail's pulsating eyestalks attract birds which proceeds to eat them - NO ONE has ever seen this actually happen
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/12/leuc...
While the oft-told story about them is that the infected snail's pulsating eyestalks attract birds which proceeds to eat them - NO ONE has ever seen this actually happen
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/12/leuc...
<i>Leucochloridium paradoxum</i> (revisited)
Parasites manipulating their hosts' appearance and behaviour is one aspect of parasitology which seems to have captured the public's imagina...
dailyparasite.blogspot.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Leucochloridium paradoxum is one of the most recognisable parasites.
While the oft-told story about them is that the infected snail's pulsating eyestalks attract birds which proceeds to eat them - NO ONE has ever seen this actually happen
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/12/leuc...
While the oft-told story about them is that the infected snail's pulsating eyestalks attract birds which proceeds to eat them - NO ONE has ever seen this actually happen
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/12/leuc...