Climate change worsens the situation because Kala-azar is climate-sensitive. Diagnosis is still difficult, and treatment ...
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah on Sunday said that India has recorded a 97 per cent reduction in ...
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 ...
“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 ...
High levels of arsenic contamination in food and drinking water is fuelling one of India’s worst scourges, Visceral Leishmaniasis or Kala-azar, the second largest parasitic killer in the world after ...
Kala-azar is a fatal infection that is caused by a parasite. It is spread from one person to other by bite of an insect. The symptoms of kala azar can be varied such as asymptomatic or subclinical ...
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who chaired a high-level meeting to review the status of Kala-azar disease in the four endemic states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal, said 632 ...
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 ...
Over 100 officials, researchers, and local medics attended the SKKRC inauguration ceremony. SKKRC occupies the old isolation wing of Surya Kanta Hospital in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Guests examined ...
Kala Azar or Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease which spreads by the bite of an insect called a sandfly. There are two types of this disease, one is cutaneous leishmaniasis which affects the skin ...
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 ...