Black fever reported in Kollam
KOLLAM: An endemic case of black fever or kala-azar (lieishmaniasis) has been from Kulathupuzha in Kollam district. The victim, a 38-year-old man from a tribal colony at 50-acres in Villumala, a forest
Kala Azar
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Black Fever, next concern among migrant labourers
Labourers From NE Could Be Carriers Of Leishmaniasis Thiruvananthapuram: After a study on domestic migrant labourers revealed that a growing number among them might be carriers of HIV virus, a new fear has emerged that they could be also carriers of Leishmaniasis, also known as Black Fever or Kala Azar, a fever spread by sand fly bite. With the health department confirming that two cases of Leishmaniasis have been identified in the state and both patients have succumbed to the disease, it is suspected that Leishmaniasis, a kind of fever widely reported in northeastern states, has reached Kerala shores through migrant labourers.
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India losing fewer infants but still short of target
A modest yet consistent decline in the infant mortality rate, especially in six problematic states, is one of the key features of the latest data from the Sample Registration System. Nationwide, the IMR
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Safe drug for kala-azar
KOLKATA, 10 SEPT: Indian scientists have found a safe orally-administered drug against kala-azar, a disease that puts at risk an estimated 165.4 million people in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar
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Vector control interventions for visceral leishmaniasis elimination initiative in South Asia, 2005-2010
The Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) Elimination Initiative in the Indian subcontinent was launched in 2005 as a joint effort between the governments in the Region (India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and the World
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Ministry wants plan to tackle rising drug-resistance
Drug resistance seems to have emerged as an endemic problem in India and the Union Health Ministry has written to the Planning Commission asking for a national programme to tackle anti-microbial resistance
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710cr to fight TB next fiscal: Budget To Check Disease Sees 80% Rise Over Last Financial Yr
New Delhi: The annual budget to combat tuberculosis (TB), the deadly air-borne disease, for 2012-13 will see about 80% increase over last fiscal. While the country’s annual health budget is set to increase
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Centre, Bihar spar over use of SUVs for kala-azar plan
Sixteen SUVs which the Union Health ministry had provided for its vector-borne disease control programme — to be used for surveillance purposes — have become a bone of contention between the ministry and
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Post-Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis in Nepal: A retrospective cohort study (2000–2010)
Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a cutaneous complication appearing after treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, and PKDL patients are considered infectious to sand flies and may therefore play
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Visceral Leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent: Modelling epidemiology and control
In the Indian subcontinent, about 200 million people are at risk of developing visceral leishmaniasis (VL). In 2005, the governments of India, Nepal and Bangladesh started the first regional VL elimination
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Kala Azar: Four-Year Test Seeks Better Ways to Treat a Persistent Disease Spread by Sand Flies
A four-year test of drugs to treat a widespread parasitic disease called kala azar was announced on Monday by the governments of India and Bangladesh, Doctors Without Borders, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases