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A Brazilian study indicates that waste produced by building construction, such as rubble, can help spread the dengue vector.

Fleas may transmit leishmaniasis to dogs, maintaining a reservoir of disease that could then infect humans.

The speed and volume of river flow shape the severity of cholera outbreaks, a Bangladeshi study has found.

MRI scans could transform scientists' understanding of cerebral malaria but the technology is barely used, say researchers

Pork tapeworm is responsible for almost a third of epileptic fits, researchers say.

Deaths from diarrhoea in over-five-year-olds far exceed established estimates, according to a new study.

The dearth of drugs for Chagas could be over as two organisations collaborate on testing on a new treatment.

Vaccines could curb infections that are claiming the lives of thousands of African children with sickle cell anaemia, say researchers.

Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and GlaxoSmithKline have signed an agreement to develop and manufacture vaccines for malaria and dengue fever.

Africa's neglected diseases burden is on a par with TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS — and should be given equal status, say researchers.

Recycling and clearing waste generated by the construction industry could reduce dengue cases, says a study in Rio de Janeiro.

New drugs to fight schistosomiasis could be on the way now the genomes of two worms that cause the disease have been sequenced.

A more efficient insecticide-treated trap for tsetse flies could help control the spread of sleeping sickness.

Tricking adult mosquitoes to carry insecticide to their breeding sites has proved effective in controlling mosquito numbers, say scientists.

A study warns that globalisation could cause Chagas disease to re-emerge in Brazilian regions currently free of the disease.

Laborious treatments for river blindness could be simplified if a drug entering final stage clinical trials is effective.

Chemicals in lizard and pig odour could be used to create traps for a tsetse fly responsible for sleeping sickness, say scientists.

Using data on sea temperature and vegetation a new climate model can predict dengue outbreaks many weeks in advance.

The US National Institutes of Health will bear the brunt of risky preclinical research for drug development in neglected diseases.

A simpler drug for sleeping sickness is ready to be rolled out — and there is a pill in the pipeline.