On October 19, 2010, a cholera outbreak was reported in the Artibonite area of Haiti, 10 months after a devastating earthquake had struck the island. Three weeks later on November 6, 2010, then American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene President Edward T. Ryan, MD, gave the following Presidential Address at the American Society of Tropical Medicine andHygiene AnnualMeeting in Atlanta, G...

Askari Nasrin, Akhtardanesh Baharak, Kheirandish Reza Tropical and Infectious Diseases Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran Asian Pacific Journal of Trop...

Molecular Diagnosis of Leishmaniasis: Current Status and Future Applications Richard Reithinger* and Jean-Claude Dujardin Clinical Trials Area, Westat, Rockville, Maryland; Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C.; and Department of...

Because this Presidential address is typically given at the end of one year in office, it has been likened by past Presidents of this Society to a ''state-of-the-union'' message. I had hoped to use my time at the 47th annual meeting to develop that analogy, to reflect on our current condition and share with you some opinions on where we as a Society need to be headed. To the great disappointmen...

Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Centre for Statistical Methodology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Departments of Medical Statistics and Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Centre for Public Hea...

Piero Olliaro,* Estrella Lasry, and Amanda Tiffany UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland; Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom; Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, New York, New York; Epicentre and Médecin...

1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Send correspondence and requests for reprints to: Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; e-mail: laura.rodrigues@ lshtm.ac.uk 2 Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 3 Leprosy Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. C...

Address: 1Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, 2Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, USA, 3Department of Microbiology/Immunology, University of Health Sciences/ Chicago Medical School, USA, 4Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Parana, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil and 5Instituto de Biofisi...

Though, I have been studying for nearly 4 decades, the collected or single works 01 European travellers, together their impressions on health and diseases in the Orient and collecting medical works of the early European physicians and Surgeons, that travelled or lived and practised in the East and pubEshed their accounts and observations on the health, conditions, diseases, herbs and drugs, Med...

Author details Epidemiology Division, Tropical Medicine Institute “Pedro Kouri”, Autopista Novia del Mediodía, Km. 6 1⁄2, La Lisa, Marianao 13, PO Box 601, Havana City, Cuba. Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Latin-American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Ha...