Kristy Murray urges preventative action in the United States against Chikungunya, a dangerous virus spread by mosquitoes which has already reached the…
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General Chikun—what?Read more
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Collections Advances in HIV Mucosal Immunology: Challenges and OpportunitiesRead more
Florian Hladik from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, USA, explains why recent research on…
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MSF Malaria Control in Emergencies: Time for ActionRead more
Estrella Lasry, Tropical Advisor to MSF, on measures taken by the organisation to predict and prevent malaria outbreaks in emergency situations. A…
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General Greater Clarity and Recognition of Who Did What in the Publication of ResearchRead more
Jo Scott and Liz Allen, from the Wellcome Trust’s Evaluation team, discuss the potential of a new “taxonomy” for classifying contributions to…
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General Acid violence – a most horrific form of denigration of womenRead more
Jocalyn Clark urges the global health community to press for high level change in legislation regarding acid violence. At a recent social…
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Collections Lessons that Last: 200 Pearls and CountingRead more
Please note that the Flipboard collection will no longer be updated starting January 2017. For the updated PLOS Pathogens Pearls collection, please see…
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General Learning from the South: influenza immunization in pregnancyRead more
Writing from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jocalyn Clark celebrates the impact of a paper by Bangladeshi researchers on Western medical provision. When two worlds…
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General Promoting Scientific Publications from Authors OverseasRead more
PLOS NTDs Deputy Editor Daniel Bausch reflects on a Manuscript Writing Workshop recently conducted in Lima, Peru. On February 19, 2014, PLOS…
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Dengue The Elderly: A neglected population with neglected tropical diseasesRead more
According to the World Health Organization, many of the world’s developed countries consider 65 years as the chronological age when people are…
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Cholera Tackling Cholera in Haiti: A Multi-Faceted ApproachRead more
The PLOS medical journals reflect on Haiti’s cholera epidemic, and the value of moving forward with an emphasis on holistic practice and…
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General Drug-Resistant TB: Dying for Better TreatmentRead more
On World TB day patient advocate Goodman Makhanda and Dr Jennifer Hughes from Médecins Sans Frontières reflect on successes and challenges of…
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General Challenging the Enemy-Tuberculosis- with Full ForceRead more
In the first of two linked posts for World TB Day, Sheetal Gandotra from the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New…