Guinea Worm is a waterborne disease that affects only the poorest of the poor people on the planet. But after millennia of inflicting pain and suffering in Asia and Africa, the disease is tantalizingly close to being wiped off the face of...
Doctors without Borders reports that it is seeing eight times the normal number of cases of visceral leishmaniasis, one of the most pernicious of the neglected tropical diseases.
Inside the World Health Organization's first ever report on so-called "Neglected Tropical Diseases." The good news, the bad news, and what it all means.