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Press releases 13.12.2024

Centre for research into climate change and infectious diseases in Latin America established

The Hamburg-based Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Education in…

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Press releases 03.12.2024

Success in the 2025 Leibniz Competition

Half a million euros over the next three years to study how climate change affects the mating behaviour of mosquitoes: the Vector Control…

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Press releases 23.10.2024

In search of new active substances from natural remedies

Hamburg, 23 Oktober 2024 – Dr. Fabien Schultz is heading the new junior research group, Ethnopharmacology and Zoopharmacognosy, at the…

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Press releases 21.10.2024

Cornelia Betsch appointed to the German Ethics Council

Hamburg, 21 October 2024 - Cornelia Betsch, Head of the Health Communication Working Group at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical…

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Press releases 25.09.2024

First case of Mpox clade IIa in Guinea

Guinea has confirmed its first case of Mpox, marking the country's initial detection of the virus. The case is from the West African clade…

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Press releases 26.08.2024

Combating Mpox

The East African Community (EAC) is facing a major challenge: seven of the eight member states are directly or indirectly affected by the…

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Press releases 20.08.2024

Weltmoskitotag | Verstärkte Usutu-Virus-Aktivität

In Deutschland kommt es offenbar erneut zu einem massiven Amselsterben durch das Usutu-Virus. Derzeit treffen täglich Dutzende Päckchen mit…

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Press releases 09.07.2024

BNITM successfully evaluated by the Leibniz Association

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) has received an excellent evaluation from the Leibniz Association. At its meeting…

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Press releases 27.06.2024

German research contribution to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is not increasing enough

Although Germany is increasing its research into neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), this increase puts it below the average of the ten most…

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Press releases 31.05.2024

Combining expertise to combat emerging viruses

How exactly are RNA viruses with epidemic potential structured? What happens at the molecular level during an infection? And how does the…

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Press releases 25.04.2024

Climate crisis, globalisation and urbanisation

Hamburg on World Malaria Day, 25 April 2024 - Malaria occurs mainly in rural areas: The vector mosquito Anopheles prefers clean natural…

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Press releases 21.03.2024

New pioneering Leibniz Lab to combat future pandemics

The new Leibniz Lab "Pandemic Preparedness: One Health, One Future" links excellent inter- and transdisciplinary research from 41 Leibniz…

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Press releases 15.02.2024

Further growth spurt at BNITM

The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) is comprehensively putting its research on a digital footing: From 2025, it will…

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Press releases 22.01.2024

Focus on the long-term consequences of infections

The emergence of Long COVID has raised awareness of the long-term consequences of infections. However, other infections can also have…

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