University of Massachusetts Medical School

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Location: Worcester, MA

Type of event: Community education

Description: We have a special seminar on NTDs (Schistosomiasis) for the medical school community co-sponsored by the Program in Molecular Medicine and The Li Weibo Institute for Rare Diseases Research. In addition, we will be handing out one-page educational glossies on eight of the NTDs with highest DALY’s associated with them to attendees as well as door prizes of World NTD Day Coffee Day mugs.

For more information: https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2020/01/umass-medical-school-to-participate-in-world-neglected-tropical-diseases-day/  

Categories: Dengue and ChikungunyaHuman African trypanosomiasisLeishmaniasisLymphatic filariasisRabiesSchistosomiasisSoil-transmitted helminthiases
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