tropical medicine
Jungle disease specialty
Tropical medicine is the branch of medicine focused on diseases prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions—malaria, dengue, cholera, parasitic infections.
These conditions often relate to climate, sanitation, and poverty rather than geography alone.
She studied tropical medicine before joining Doctors Without Borders.
- yellow feverMosquito-spread tropical virus
- malariaMosquito-borne parasitic infection
- leishmaniasisSandfly-transmitted parasitic disease
- dengue feverMosquito-spread tropical virus
- vaccinesPreparations conferring immunity
Zika virus · mosquito net · river blindness · tsetse fly · epidemiology · public health · field hospital · parasite · mobile clinics · Ebola virus · infection · typhoid · humidity · prophylaxis · fever · cholera · flies · disease outbreak
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, surgery, treatment
- scientific progressinventions, scientific expeditions, natural history, geology, botany
- African healthmalaria, HIV, cholera, tuberculosis, TB
- colonial medicinebloodletting, leeches, cupping, apothecary, barber surgeon
- folk medicineherbalism, herbal remedies, folk healer, herbalist, healer
- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors