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Can of Worms: Travel Parasites to Know About

August 17, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

Malaria isn’t the only parasite you need to think about when you travel In my last post, I shared some of the misguided myths about malaria that I had heard while hanging out with the tourists on Zanzibar. Then, in the in-flight magazine on the internal flight between Dar and Mwanza (my flight was over an hour late…hence how the airline, Precision Air, earned its local nickname: “Imprecision … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Africa, Anclyostoma duodenale, Cordylobia anthropophagus, Dracunculiasis, Guinea worm, Helminthes, Necator americanus, Parasites, Schistosomiasis, Trichuris trichiura, Tumbo Flies, Whipworms, Zanzibar

Soil-Transmitted Helminths and Malaria in Pregnant Women on the Thai-Burmese Border

November 16, 2010 By Malaria.com Leave a Comment

Background: Deworming is recommended by the WHO in girls and pregnant and lactating women to reduce anaemia in areas where hookworm and anaemia are common. There is conflicting evidence on the harm and the benefits of intestinal geohelminth infections on the incidence and severity of malaria, and consequently on the risks and benefits of deworming in malaria affected populations. We examined … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transmission & Vectors Tagged With: A. lumbricoides, Anaemia, Burma, Deworming, Geohelminth Infection, Helminths, Hookworm, Intestinal Worms, Myanmar, P.vivax, Pregnancy and Malaria, Roundworms, T.trichuria, Thailand, Whipworms

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