“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 ...

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 ...

Village youths in Bihar help fight kala azar. Kala azar - a disease transmitted by the sand fly killed over 70 people last year. "The government plans to involve the youth to help it to stamp out kala ...

A devastating outbreak of the deadly kala-azar disease is surging across Kenya, fueled by climate change and hampered by a ...

Kathmandu, Feb. 17 -- azar, a persistent public health challenge in Nepal, is on track to be declared eliminated this year, thanks to a significant drop in new infections in recent years.

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 ...

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 ...

Agnes Musana from Kajiado West still shudders as she recalls the frightening days when her 10-year-old niece fought for her dear life, unsure of what was ailing her. She recounts how the young girl’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...