PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs) co-Editors-in-Chief Peter J Hotez and Serap Aksoy discuss the threat of zika virus spread throughout the…
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General Will Zika become the 2016 NTD of the Year?Read more
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General Boko Haram and Africa’s Neglected Tropical DiseasesRead more
Peter Hotez (@PeterHotez), Co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, was named U.S. Science Envoy by the White House and State Department with…
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General Chagas Disease: The New NumbersRead more
Peter Hotez (@PeterHotez), Co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, comments on new WHO estimates of the burden of Chagas disease in Latin…
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General “Vaccine Hesitancy”: The PLOS Currents CollectionRead more
Peter Hotez (@peterhotez), President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, announces the launch of PLOS…
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General What Kills Little Kids?Read more
Peter Hotez (@PeterHotez), co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs and Jennifer Herricks (@JenHerricks) of the National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of…
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General One Million Deaths by ParasitesRead more
The end of 2014 saw the release of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), in which 240 causes of…
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General Neglected Tropical Diseases that KillRead more
According to the latest (November 28) figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost…
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General Global Health Security and the NTDsRead more
Peter Hotez, co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, comments on President Obama’s call for global action to prepare for future disease outbreaks…
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General Venezuela: An Emerging Tropical Disease and Humanitarian Emergency?Read more
At the International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XIII) held in Mexico City earlier this month, we learned of a very serious and…
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General Reflections on feces and its synonymsRead more
As medical parasitologists we tend not to be too squeamish when discussing human feces. They represent one of the “five F’s” of…
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General Millennium Development Goal 6: Measuring ProgressRead more
One of the most dramatic international responses to the Millennium Development Goals launched by then United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan in 2000 has…
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General The Blue Marble Health Collection: Redrawing Boundaries that Disease has Already CrossedRead more
Peter J. Hotez, Co-Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Larry Peiperl, Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, on a new PLOS Collection that highlights a…