Patna: Bhojpuri folk songs that have been entertaining people in Bihar for years will now be used to spread awareness about the kala azar disease, a recurring epidemic that takes hundreds of lives in ...

Longorot Epuu’s 8-year-old niece, his namesake, was sick. Epuu quickly recognized the signs of kala-azar, the “black fever,” while visiting his brother’s family in a neighboring village in Kenya’s ...

PATNA: A Union health ministry report on kala-azar situation in Bihar said 196 persons had died of the disease during the first nine months of 2001. patna: a union health ministry report on kala-azar ...

Eleven districts of Bengal, mostly in the northern part of the state, have reported at least 65 cases of black fever, also called 'kala-azar', in the last couple of weeks, a senior official of the ...

“Do you know anyone who had kala azar?” Dr Vikas Aggarwal asked Nandu Singh of Santari village in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar one day in August. Aggarwal is part of the KalaCore consortium, a team ...

Scientists have developed a potent vaccine directed at the dreaded kala azar disease that claims dozens of lives in eastern India every year. "The vaccine formulation is highly potent. We have shown ...

Kala-azar, also called visceral leishmaniasis, is the second deadliest parasitic disease after malaria. It affects 200 million people in dozens of countries. When Sishu Kumari started working as a ...

Bhojpuri folk songs that have been entertaining people in Bihar for years will now be used to spread awareness about the kala azar disease, a recurring epidemic that takes hundreds of lives in the ...

Thousands are dying in Bihar due to kala azar, a deadly parasitic disease transmitted by the tiny sand fly. And a former minister says he knows how to battle the scourge. Thousands are dying in Bihar ...

At 17, Rohim Sarkar weighs as much as the average 11-year-old. When shirtless, each of the seven pairs of bones that make up his upper ribcage is visible from five feet away. An attending doctor at ...

KOLKATA: As a measure to erradicate kala-azar by 2015, the Union health ministry has included the vector-borne disease under notifiable diseases in the state. In addition to West Bengal, the ministry ...

PATNA: A Union health ministry report on kala-azar situation in Bihar said 196 persons had died of the disease during the first nine months of 2001. patna: a union health ministry report on kala-azar ...