Lochacharuk Akwiny and his daughter Chepterit Lochacharuk who is recovering from Kala-azar at the treatment centre. At Kacheliba in West Pokot is a treatment centre that caters to Kala-azar — a ...

Kala-Azar is a parasitic disease transmitted by sandflies, affecting the spleen, liver, and bone marrow. It is one of the ...

The flood crisis in Bihar has escalated into a major health concern. Stagnant water from breached rivers can become a ...

Kala-azar* is a serious disease that infects another 300,000 of the world's poorest people every year. It has long been ignored in Bangladesh and other countries where it mainly afflicts the poorest ...

Current diagnostic tests for VL disease The World Health Organization ... Zijlstra, E. E. et al. Kala-azar: a comparative study of parasitological methods and the direct agglutination test ...

A sense of calm pervades the Maadankaavu pond, hidden away in the greenery near a bylane at Maruthikkunnu in Navaikulam ...

Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable diseases brought by European explorers. Smallpox reached Massachusetts in 1633, brought by settlers from France ...

Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — Inflammation of the arteries is a primary precursor and driver of cardiovascular disease -- the No. 1 killer of people in the United States. This inflammation is associated with ...

KALA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the research, development and commercialization of innovative therapies for rare and severe diseases of the eye, today announced that ...

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At Kacheliba in West Pokot is a treatment centre that caters to Kala-azar — a neglected tropical disease. According to doctors without borders, Kala-azar is the second largest parasitic killer ...