DeWorm3 at NHM: Celebrating the Intervention Phase
Since 2015, DeWorm3 has been managed from a central hub at the Natural History Museum, and after five and a half successful years we are delighted to close out the programme on a high after the prodigious delivery of the Intervention Phase.
DeWorm3 is a large-scale, community cluster randomised trial which seeks to determine the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil transmitted helminths (STH) in India, Malawi, and Benin. Overseen by Senior Responsible Officer Dr Tim Littlewood and Principal Investigator Dr Judd Walson (University of Washington), the programme was originally conceived as a 5 year Neglected Tropical Disease investment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which aimed to develop effective strategies for scaling-up STH transmission interruption programs. This was done by broadly administering the deworming drug albendazole to people of all age groups in affected areas (community-wide deworming), co
Public health risks from “The Sick 5” go unchecked in the captive lion breeding industry
By Evans Kipkorir Listen to article
A joint scientific study by Blood Lions and World Animal Protection highlights how the captive lion breeding industry in South Africa poses real and serious health risks to thousands of tourists, industry workers, and its communities.
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Five major diseases (dubbed The Sick 5 in our new campaign) have been identified that can inflict serious health issues for people”,
says Dr Louise de Waal (Director of Blood Lions). “These diseases are associated with at least 63 potentially harmful pathogens linked with both wild and captive lions, as identified in our peer-reviewed paper.”
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Published 12 March 2021
A professor of parasitology, Federal University, Lokoja, Prof. Jaqueline Badaki, has said basic hygiene is vital in tackling elephantiasis.
Badaki stated this during a two-day training of 44 health workers in Gombe organised by Amen Health Care Foundation.
She said, “Elephantiasis is categorised into different grades; at the early stage which is grade one, the swelling of the affected part is not visible; the second grade, the swelling becomes visible and in the third grade, the affected area becomes hard as stone.
“But with basic hygiene elephantiasis can be managed and treated.”
The Executive Secretary Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Abdulrahaman Shuaibu, said the training was timely because it will go a long way in building the capacity of the state health workers in managing elephantiasis.
You’ve heard about the Big Five, but probably not about the “Sick Five” a frightening package of diseases that goes unchecked in the captive lion breeding industry.
A joint scientific study by Blood Lions and World Animal Protection has highlighted how the captive lion breeding industry in South Africa holds a serious health risk to thousands of tourists, industry workers and communities.
The ‘Sick Five’ of the captive lion breeding industry
Blood Lions is an award-winning documentary feature film and global campaign that works to bring an end to predator breeding and “canned” hunting industries in South Africa.
Director Dr Louise de Waal says five major diseases dubbed the ‘Sick Five’ in its new campaign have been identified that can cause serious health issues for people.
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