{"id":1352,"date":"2024-10-08T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:51:24","slug":"loiasis-bringing-an-end-to-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Loiasis: bringing an end to neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSCF7703.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSCF7703.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSCF7703-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)02185-8\/fulltext\"><strong>The Lancet\/World Report\/ 3. Oktober 2024<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Loa loa<\/em>\u00a0infections affect up to 20 million people in Central and West Africa, but options for treatment and control are widely inadequate. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Mouanga Ma is setting up flytraps on the banks of the Ngounie River near Sindara, a village in the rainforest in Gabon. He recounts the moment, 30 years ago, when he first felt a stabbing pain in his eye. He ran to his father, asking him to have a look. \u201cA worm, a little worm is moving in your eye!\u201d, the 45-year-old remembers his father exclaiming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nqphotography.com\">Picture by Nyani Quarmyne<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)02185-8\/fulltext\">Read the full article here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet\/World Report\/ 3. Oktober 2024 Loa loa\u00a0infections affect up to 20 million people in Central and West Africa, but options for treatment and control are widely inadequate. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports. Jos\u00e9 Mouanga Ma is setting up flytraps on the banks of the Ngounie River near Sindara, a village in the rainforest in Gabon. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[386,388,391,392,393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}