Episode 39: Spotlight on tropical diseases

Chapters

1. 0:00

   Why should we fund research on neglected tropical diseases?

   eLife Senior Editor Prabhat Jha argues that public funding is key to tackling epidemics in low income countries.
2. 6:47

   Shortlisting the suspects

   Models predict which species of mosquito may be able to carry the Zika virus in the US.
3. 12:26

   Malaria parasites on the move

   A protein called TRP1 allows the parasites that cause malaria to move inside mosquitos.
4. 17:41

   Safety in numbers

   For a tuberculosis infection to progress, around 50 bacterial cells need to infect a single immune cell.
5. 23:37

   What happened next?

   We catch up on research into schistosomiasis that we first covered in episode 29.