Bilharzia, leishmaniasis, chikungunya, zika, dengue… It is now impossible to act as if these tropical diseases should remain the sad prerogative of developing countries. The spread of some of them “south” beyond their original homes is a real concern today for health authorities in the north, who are increasingly faced with the emergence of indigenous cases. in patients who have not traveled abroad.
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It was in the early 2000s that the World Health Organization (WHO) began to warn about the need to fight about twenty tropical diseases that are unknown in our latitudes, but frequent in the poorest states near the equator, especially in Africa: digestive verminosis. , schistosomiasis, filariasis, echinococcosis, cysticercosis, leishmaniasis… In total, they affect about 1.6 billion people and are a source of misery and isolation especially for women. But they are not interesting for research…
Source: Le Figaro
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