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 ...
“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 ...
In the 1940s, when former Union Health Minister Dr CP Thakur was about 15 years old, he was diagnosed with kala azar. “I was a well-fed boy and, therefore, I survived the illness,” he said. “Imagine ...
Kala azar is a chronic and potentially fatal parasitic disease of the internal organs, affecting the liver, spleen, bones and the lymph nodes due to infection by the parasite called Leishmania ...
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 ...
A vector-borne disease, which can turn fatal if not treated, had over 77,000 reported cases in India in 1992. In 2023, the number of reported cases came down to 595. A symposium of doctors, scientists ...
Health workers in South Sudan have been alarmed by a sharp increase in cases of Kala Azar, a fatal disease caused by the bite of the sand fly, in the eastern Jonglei and Upper Nile states, according ...
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 ...
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