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November 2019

Use of Tuk Tuk, a motorized rikshaw, as a channel of communication to disseminate key messages and songs on dengue through megaphone to reach out the far-flung communities in Cambodia. Shafique and Lopes (2019)

Image Credit: Mr. Vanney Keo, Malaria Consortium

Viewpoints

Significance of amebiasis: 10 reasons why neglecting amebiasis might come back to bite us in the gut

Debbie-Ann T. Shirley, Koji Watanabe, Shannon Moonah

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Plague in Zimbabwe from 1974 to 2018: A review article

Amon Munyenyiwa, Moses Zimba, Tamuka Nhiwatiwa, Maxwell Barson

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