Mapping the hotspots: How I help to fight disease in Yemen
Epidemiologist Marissa arrives in war-torn Yemen, ready to help track and tackle disease outbreaks in a county where the healthcare system has collapsed
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Rohingya Crisis: Fighting a forgotten disease in Bangladesh’s refugee camps
Kashmir-based medical doctor Samreen Hussain recently returned from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, where she worked as part of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team providing medical care to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. In this piece, she describes the challenges posed by the re-emergence of diphtheria.
Rohingya crisis: Vaccinating children inside the world’s largest refugee camp
Natasha Lewer has recently returned to the UK from Bangladesh. She blogs about her time with nurse Chrissie McVeigh inside Kutupalong refugee camp as Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) raced to vaccinate as many children as possible against diphtheria.
Rohingya Crisis: A disease of the past rears its ugly head
Nina, a doctor from the UK, has been working in a Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. She blogs about an outbreak of diphtheria, a contagious and potentially deadly disease...
Rohingya Crisis: "We should not be seeing cases of Diphtheria"
Rosie Burton, a British doctor based in South Africa has just returned from one month in Bangladesh, where she was working in a diphtheria treatment centre run by MSF.
Rohingya Crisis: A disease of the past rears its ugly head
Nina, a doctor from the UK, has been working in a Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. She blogs about an outbreak of diphtheria, a contagious and potentially deadly disease...