Forgotten people, forgotten diseases : the neglected tropical diseases and their impact on global health and development /
"EPI The age of hypocrisy has been succeeded by that of indifference, which is worse, for indifference corrupts and appeases: it kills the spirit before it kills the body. It has been stated before, it bears repeating: the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference./ EPI . EPI It is a trite...
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Washington, DC : Hoboken, NJ :
ASM Press ; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Neglected Tropical Diseases: the Ancient Afflictions of Stigma and Poverty
- The Unholy Trinity: the Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections Ascariasis, Trichuriasis, and Hookworm Infection
- Schistosomiasis (Snail Fever) and the Food-borne Trematodiases
- Elephantiasis: Lymphatic Filariasis, Endemic Nonfilarial Elephantiasis (Podoconiosis), and Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm)
- The Blinding Neglected Tropical Diseases: Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) and Trachoma
- The Mycobacterial Infections: Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy
- The Kinetoplastid Infections: Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease), and the Leishmaniases
- The Urban Neglected Tropical Diseases: Leptospirosis, Dengue and Zika, and Rabies
- The Neglected Tropical Diseases of North America
- Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, and a New WHO Roadmap (2021-2030)
- Future Trends in Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Antipoverty Vaccines
- The Newest NTDs and a Plea to Repair the World
- Appendix: What Are the Neglected Tropical Diseases?
