The Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases (CDIPD) is an interdisciplinary research center based at UCSD
CDIPD targets diseases affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, but which are largely ignored by traditional drug and vaccine discovery companies because they primarily affect the poor and underserved
09/27/2020
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8 Texas cities were alerted to a brain-eating amoeba found in water supply — CNN Residents of eight cities have been alerted that a brain-eating amoeba was found in a southeast Texas water supply, leading one of the towns to issue a disaster declaration.
07/06/2020
https://apple.news/AbjenZF8wRsO_stgeGXdmbA
Rare brain-eating amoeba infection confirmed in Florida, health officials say — Fox News A person in Florida has been infected with a rare and usually deadly brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials.
04/02/2020
https://apple.news/AtAuga7DaSTy3QNhARatEJQ
The Guy Who Helped Invent the N95 Mask Thinks He’s Found a Way to Clean and Reuse Them — VICE “We should get the results in one or two days.”
04/02/2020
How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19 This video made possible with support of Brilliant - the first 200 subscribers to go to http://Brilliant.org/MinutePhysics get 20% off a Premium subscription...
03/30/2020
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FDA issues emergency-use authorization for anti-malaria drugs amid coronavirus outbreak — The Hill The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday issued an emergency-use authorization for a pair of anti-malaria drugs as health officials work to combat the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.
03/30/2020
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
Visualizing the History of Pandemics The history of pandemics, from the Antonine Plague to the ongoing COVID-19 event, ranked by their impact on human life.
03/30/2020
https://www.livescience.com/cat-infected-covid-19-from-owner.html
Cat infected with COVID-19 from owner in Belgium This is the first case of human-to-cat transmission of the novel coronavirus.
12/07/2018
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Priority Review Vouchers Revitalizing Neglected Disease Drug Development — Forbes There's room for cautious optimism with respect to neglected tropical disease drug development, as recently the issuance of priority review vouchers in exchange for neglected disease drug approvals has picked up considerably.
12/07/2018
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Woman Contracted Rare and Fatal Brain-Eating Amoeba After Using Neti Pot with Tap Water: Doctor — People A Seattle woman with a sinus infection tragically died after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba. The 69-year-old woman first developed a persistent sinus infection, which led doctors to prescribe her with a commonly-used neti pot to flush out her sinuses, according to a case report published in Se...
11/26/2018
Miriam A Giardini posted an update to their GoFundMe campaign. Dear friends, We would like to take this special time of the year, Thanksgiving, to express our immense gratitude. There were over 200 new bone marrow donors registered through our campaign, what is amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! We are also very thankful for all the prayers, good though...
11/26/2018
https://www.gofundme.com/donate-bone-marrow-priceless
Click here to support Donate Bone Marrow/Doe Medula Óssea organized by Miriam A Giardini This campaign aims at encouraging people to become bone marrow donors worldwide and at raising funds to help Jair’s treatment. To register as a bone marrow donor in the USA, please visit Jair's link: Join.bethematch.org/Jair . (--> Ou para se cadastrar como doador de medula óssea no Brasil, aces....
11/07/2018
The abstract registration deadline for the SCEP Symposium has been extended to Monday, Nov. 12th
To register/ or submit an abstract, please use the link below:
https://cgni.wufoo.com/forms/scep-2018-symposium-registration
/https://scep.ucr.edu