Great news - congratulations to #Niger for elimination of Onchocerciasis; great news coming on coming on World #NTD day

WHO@who.int · 2y ago

🧵 🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV 1/4

"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.

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free speech/academic freedom warriors strike again

Troy Tassier@troytassier.bsky.social · 2y ago

It appears the right is really triggered now. They’ve gone from banning books to banning words.

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...

<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...

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