Category: onchocerciasis

Closer than Ever

Some of the world’s most accomplished disease experts—including several of my colleagues in CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM)—are gathering in Geneva this week at the NTD Summit 2017. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of parasitic, bacterial, and viral diseases that cause illness and disability in more than 1.5 billion people Read More >

April 19, 2017 by CAPT Stephanie Bialek, Chief, Parasitic Diseases, Division of Parasitic Disease and Malaria

Archive, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), parasitic diseases

Guinea worm disease, London Declaration, lymphatic filariasis, NTD Summit, onchocerciasis, Tanzania, trachoma