For #WorldFieldEpidemiologyDay we’re spotlighting a key WHO resource from 2024 that helps shaping the fight against schistosomiasis + STH.
It gives health teams the tools to:
🔹 Track progress
🔹 Adapt strategies
🔹 Use resources wisely
#BeatNTDs #Schistosomiasis #STH
www.who.int/news/item/31...

While cleaning up some files I found this screenshot of a David Sipress cartoon. Even more apt 3 years later.

Great article about the impact of this waterborne parasitic infection on #WomensHealth in #Kenya- Female Genital #Schistosomiasis #FGSchisto

"My battle with waterborne disease misdiagnosed as STI"
nation.africa/kenya/health...

📣 New paper: Organ-specific microbiomes of Biomphalaria snails

📋 Snails, vector of blood flukes, have specific microbe communities associated with their organs. Whole snail microbiome is not the true composite of these microbiomes. 🧵👇

Go get it: doi.org/10.1186/s425...

A late #NationalSnailDay 🧪

Into #diagnostics & #STDs? Check out our new paper on human IgG specific for a recombinant protein, MG075, as an accurate marker for Mycoplasma genitalium infection(s). #IDsky 🧪 🩸@JCM
doi.org/10.1128/jcm....

The #Parasite case 773 is now up, donated by Dr. Rasool Jafari. These objects were grown in TYI-S-33 medium. parasitewonders.blogspot.com/2025/04/case... (check out the video here!) What is seen here? Ans. later this week!

Sharing this article about @edyong209.bsky.social in the NY Times "Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World"

Ed Yong in my opinion is the best science journalist of our times - and there are many great ones

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Timeline cleanse of stunning award winning marine photography 🧪

The Parasitologists Unite starter pack is full (150 parasitologists!). Time to open a new one! Keep the suggestions coming and spread the word!
go.bsky.app/KdBboF2

✍️Warning: application deadlines are closer than they appear!✍️

January 29 is the last day to apply for two of the MBL's 2025 courses: Biology of Parasitism and Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Don't miss your chance!

Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V
#ScienceStartsHere

Schistosoma mansoni-induced host immunopathology is gut microbiota dependent https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634684v1

… IN MICE …

Preprint drop 🧪🪱🐭🦠
Very happy to share our work on Schistosoma mansoni-gut microbiome-host immune response interactions ➡️ main finding: alteration of gut microbiome can affect degree of liver granuloma formation!! Super interesting, right? #BeatNTDs Have a read here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The MPM XXXVI page is now live. Sept 14th to Sept 18th. More updates will be coming soon. Check it out on the parasitesrule.com website. Organized this year by Richarch McCulloch @rmc9z.bsky.social, Photini Sinnis, Marc-Jan Gubbels, Deepali Ravel & Omar Harb @omarharb.bsky.social

If in Edinburgh…

Want to pursue a career in #GlobalHealth nursing?

This online short course equips nurses, midwives & health professionals with insights into clinical practice, interventions & skills to work in low-resource settings.🌍
#PublicHealth

Running 23 April - 28 May 2025.

bit.ly/4fofyrf

Are you interested in #trypanosomes #biomolecularcondensates and/or #geneexpression? We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work with with us in the beautiful city of York!

Please share!

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Exactly - but 1st step in the pipeline is target discovery. Then comes making & validating actual tests for specific use cases. Fx, different requirement for surveillance in risk zones (eg climate change) versus 1st line screening in combination with 2nd line current infection tool for elimination

We need tool development for surveillance and intelligent resource-use. Antibody detection will fill a gap in travel medicine, near- and post elimination settings and (re-)emerging transmission zones in ONE and GLOBAL health contexts 🧪🪱 #BeatNTDs. 🙌 to all the amazing collaborators on this project

FINALLY! Our discovery of a very specific and sensitive serological target for schistosomiasis diagnostics is UP. Please, enjoy our shout-out for glycans and the importance of anticipating diagnostics needs 🧪🩸🪱 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!!

Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

First meeting of 2025 this Wednesday!

Last #Parasite case for 2024! Tissue from peritoneal cavity in a pt. with volvulus and pulse granulomas. parasitewonders.blogspot.com/2024/12/para... What are the objects seen here? Answer later this week.