Kala Azar

More than two million children are at risk of malaria and kala-azar in famine stricken Africa. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

This seems to be the case for cholera, kala-azar, and schistosomiasis, which did not become established in the Amazonian forest ecosystem (medium certainty). ❋ Unknown (2008)

These trials do not cover the drug related to tropical disease such as kala-azar, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Filaria, Dengue, Chucken Gunea, which are the major problems of the third world countries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An historical review of malaria, kala-azar and filariasis in Bangladesh in relation to the Flood Action Plan. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala-azar, is an acute, often deadly form of the disease resulting from parasites multiplying in the spleen, liver and bone marrow. ❋ Unknown (1996)

The proximity between humans and livestock is emphasized in this slide showing a kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis) affected household in northern India. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Some forms of the disease cause damage inside the body (visceral leishmaniasis, kala-azar, dumdum fever). ❋ Unknown (1993)

The dreaded sleeping-sickness of Africa comes through the bites of a small fly; the bedbug is believed to be the means of conveying a frightful disease known as kala-azar, and the house-fly often brings to us the germs that produce typhoid fever, dysentery, and probably other diseases as well. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Conventional treatments for the condition, also known as kala-azar, take much longer and have a greater risk of side effects. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hundreds in West Bengal district afflicted with kala-azar ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was reduction in mortality due to malaria, kala-azar and dengue, as well as reduction in the incidence of filarial infection. ❋ Unknown (2010)

June 13th, 2010 KOLKATA - Outbreak of kala-azar, a centuries-old disease, in two tribal villages near Bolpur in West Bengal's Birbhum district has thrown health officials into a tizzy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The report also found "[o] ther diseases, such as Chagas, kala-azar [visceral leishmaniasis], sleeping sickness, and Buruli ulcer continue to be neglected, with very few new commitments to expanding access to available treatment or carrying out research for much needed newer and more effective drugs," Mail & Guardian writes (12/22). ❋ Unknown (2009)