All London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine articles
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NewsResearchers probe how malaria harms unborn babies
UK-based Wellcome has awarded over €2 million to an international research effort to uncover how malaria can injure developing babies.
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NewsIndia could bear biggest impact from chikungunya, new maps suggest
Based on existing evidence of chikungunya transmission, an infectious disease model predicts 14.4 million people could be at risk of infections globally each year, with 5.1 million people at risk in India.
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News‘Overlooked’ scrub typhus may affect 1 in 10 in rural India
A study of over 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India, suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural populations annually and is a leading yet under-recognised cause of hospitalisations for fever across India.
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NewsNew discovery and grant to accelerate Strep A vaccine efforts
With a large sum of research funding and multinational contributions, the world’s only Strep A human challenge model will be used to resolve logistical issues and speed up the development of a successful Strep A vaccine.
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NewsMMR vaccine still best protection against measles - modelling study suggests level of protection decreases slightly over time
A new study shows the MMR vaccine remains the best protection against measles. The modelling study in England suggests level of protection decreases slightly over time.
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NewsClimate change likely to increase diarrhoeal disease hospitalizations by 2100s
By 2100, hospitalizations from diarrhoeal diseases are predicted to increase in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh as a result of climate change, even if global warming stays under 2 degrees Celsius.
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NewsKissing and petting young camels found to be key transmitter of MERS virus
New research has found that young camels present a high risk for human exposure to the MERS-CoV virus, with kissing and petting young camels found to be an important route of viral transmission.
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NewsNew classification of tuberculosis supports efforts to eliminate the disease
A new way to classify tuberculosis (TB) that aims to improve focus on the early stages of the disease has been presented by an international team.
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NewsSyphilis transmission networks and AMR in England uncovered using genomics
Scientists use genomics to uncover syphilis transmission patterns in England, in a pioneering new approach for STI surveillance.
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NewsNew strains of influenza A virus in pigs potentially pose pandemic risk
A new study addresses gaps in understanding of swine influenza A virus evolution and highlights need for early warning of disease emergence.
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NewsNew vaccine boosts hopes of eliminating meningitis across Africa
A trial of a new vaccine against meningococcal disease, a cause of meningitis and blood poisoning, has found that it is safe and induces a strong immune response across five strains of meningococcal bacteria: A, C, W, Y and X.
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NewsSecond gene implicated in malaria chloroquine resistance evolution
How malaria parasites evolved to evade a major antimalarial drug has long been thought to involve only one key gene. Now, scientists have shown a second key gene is also involved in malaria’s resistance to the drug chloroquine.