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  2. Tropical disease - Wikipedia

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    Climate change, global warming caused by the greenhouse effect, and the resulting increase in global temperatures, are possibly causing tropical diseases and vectors to spread to higher altitudes in mountainous regions, and to higher latitudes that were previously spared, such as the Southern United States, the Mediterranean area, etc. [14] [15 ...

  3. Neglected tropical diseases - Wikipedia

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    Scabies (also sometimes known as the seven-year itch) is a contagious human skin infestation by the tiny (0.2–0.45 mm) mite Sarcoptes scabiei, variety hominis. The word is from Latin: scabere, lit. 'to scratch'. The most common symptoms are severe itchiness and a pimple -like rash. Occasionally, tiny burrows may appear on the skin. In a first-ever infection, the infected person usually ...

  4. List of diseases eliminated from the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of diseases known (or declared) to have been eliminated from the United States, either permanently or at one time. (" Elimination " is the preferred term for "regional eradication" of a disease; the term " eradication " is reserved for the reduction of an infectious disease's global prevalence to zero.)

  5. Tropical medicine - Wikipedia

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    Tropical medicine requires an interdisciplinary approach, as the infections and diseases tropical medicine faces are both broad and unique. Tropical medicine requires research and assistance from the fields of epidemiology, microbiology, virology, parasitology, and logistics. Physicians of tropical medicine must have effective communication ...

  6. Category:Tropical diseases - Wikipedia

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  7. Health measures during the construction of the Panama Canal

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    By the time the United States took control of the Panama Canal project on May 4, 1904, the Isthmus of Panama was notorious for tropical diseases. An estimated 12,000 workers had died during the construction of the Panama Railway and over 22,000 during the French effort to build a canal. [1]

  8. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases - Wikipedia

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    Established in 2007 by founding editor Peter Hotez, with US$1.1 million in grant support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases was created to be "both catalytic and transformative in promoting science, policy, and advocacy for these diseases of the poor." [2] [3]

  9. Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization classified 20 major diseases as neglected tropical diseases (NTD), while finer classifications consider several additional conditions. [4] The diseases collectively had affected almost 2 billion people worldwide every year, causing about 200,000 deaths and almost 50 disability adjusted life years annually.