The same story can be told about kala-azar, which is spread by the sand fly.

The project will provide essential information to assist in the planning of control measures against Kala-azar.

Even with recovery, kala-azar does not always leave its hosts unmarked.

He revolutionised the concept of treatment of Kala-azar and is recognised as an international authority in this field.

He served in India, where he did research on enteric fever and kala-azar.

Donovan identified the Leishman bodies as the causative agents of kala-azar.

Misdiagnosis is dangerous, as without proper treatment the mortality rate for kala-azar is close to 100%.

Donovan's continued works on the biology of L. donovani however established him as the leading authority in kala-azar.

I am a pediatrician who frequently treats children with kala-azar, a disease transmitted to humans from dogs by sand flies.

He was associate professor of environmental theme of Kala-azar (KA).

It was he, who discovered a new focus of Kala-Azar in Gilgit and Baltistan.

In December 2010, South Sudan was hit with the worst outbreak of Kala-Azar in eight years.

Intermittent fever: The temperature elevation is present only for a certain period, later cycling back to normal, e.g. malaria, kala-azar, pyaemia, or septicemia.

Today, the name kala-azar is used interchangeably with the scientific name visceral leishmaniasis for the most acute form of the disease caused by L. donovani.

MSF has been providing necessary medical supplies to hospitals and training Sudanese health professionals to help them deal with Kala-Azar.

A Treatise on Kala-Azar, Brahmachari Upendranath.

Increasing failure of miltefosine in the treatment of kala-azar in Nepal and the potential role of parasite drug resistance, re-infection or non-compliance.

Leishmania: A protozoan spread by sandfly bites from animal reservoirs, causing a variety of skin and mucosal infections and the visceral disease kala-azar.

For this contribution on kala-azar, he got admiration from Voluntary Health Association of India and World Health Organization.

Kala-Azar in Doctor Carl Mense's Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten, vol.

In the Sudan, where civil war has been continuous since 1983, the violence has been concentrated in the more populated south, and kala-azar was concentrated there too.

Leishmania donovani is the cause of kala-azar and varieties are found in India, China, East Africa, the Mediterranean and South America.

There are plans to open an additional Kala-Azar treatment centre in Malakal, Southern Sudan to cope with the overwhelming number of patients that are seeking treatment.

After reading Leishman paper, Donovan confirmed on 17 June that the parasites (by then known as "Leishman bodies") were definitely the causative agents of kala-azar.

"Kala-azar is a significant health problem across northern India and neighboring countries," said Dr. Sanjay Singh, CEO of Gennova.

One had the black fever in Charleston at the age of four.

And then she lost Dark Wind as well, to a black fever that carried him off in a single afternoon.

Black fever is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after malaria.

The lady Baaltis is seized with the black fever, and I must visit her.

The $10, 21-day treatment provides lifelong protection against the disease, known in India as kala azar, or black fever.

Its case studies include self-criticisms, like the fact that it underestimated the cost of distributing an antibiotic for black fever in India.

The potatoes were killed by a fungus, she explained; at the same time, lice spread yellow fever and black fever.

This nonprofit pharmaceutical company conducted the medical trials needed for a drug to cure black fever, which kills an estimated half-million people worldwide each year.

There are new treatments available for visceral leish-maniasis, also called black fever, which is second only to malaria as the world's deadliest parasitic killer.

Hasan thinks it may also work for fighting visceral leishmaniasis or black fever, a little-known disease that causes about 500,000 deaths a year.

Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar ('black fever') is the most serious form, and is potentially fatal if untreated.

Two weeks later, OneWorld Health received I.R.S. approval and set out to tackle black fever.

At the time, the W.H.O was developing another drug for black fever with Zentaris, a large pharmaceutical company, and the Indian government.

An Ambitious Goal Dr. Hale hopes to stamp out black fever eventually, a goal that many doctors regard as impossible.

The tropical infection leads to illnesses including Black Fever, which results in horrific facial deformities, and kills around 50,000 people, mostly in India, each year.

Keele: Black Fever, has been around for a very long time, even before the Gulf War, but in areas surrounding Baghdad essentially it was quiet confined.

L. donovani is the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis, traditionally known as kala-azar ("black fever", particularly in India), because of its characteristic symptoms.

Council minute, 7th October When the black fever cart passed through the town, mothers urged their children to run and hide - in case they contracted some infectious disease.

A new screening system developed at the University of Durham, UK, may help develop safer drugs against the tropical disease Leishmaniasis, also known as black fever.

An epidemic of Leishmaniasis (kala-azar or black fever) is reported from the Northeast Indian state of Bihar with spread into neighbouring Nepal.

In one case, there had been good evidence that paromomycin, a drug that was first developed 50 years ago as a broad-spectrum antibiotic, would be effective against black fever (visceral leishmaniasis).

Last year, after his 4-year-old son contracted black fever, a deadly disease endemic here, Mr. Majhi rowed for an hour, in a homemade canoe made of water hyacinth leaves.

A history, suggests the possibility that a certain sense of self-preservation in the Roman society after suffering some epidemic such as the Black fever increased the reproductive pressure in the individuals.

In India, VL is known as kala-azar, a Hindi word that means black fever, named after the fever that ravages affected individuals, whose skin becomes dark gray.

Roughly 90 percent of black fever cases worldwide are found here in Bihar State in India and in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and northeastern Brazil.

(She was emulating her father, a missionary in China who succumbed to an exotic and appropriately named disease called dumdum fever.)

Its main thrust is research in different aspects of visceral leishmaniasis.

This was the first time an oral drug is effective for visceral leishmaniasis.

Visceral leishmaniasis infects around half a million people across the world every year.

Successfully treated patients rarely develop visceral leishmaniasis a second time.

It may be a reservoir host for visceral leishmaniasis in Sudan.

There are no vaccines or preventive drugs for visceral leishmaniasis.

Kala-azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis, has been one of the major health problems in Sudan.

The disease can present in three main ways: cutaneous, mucocutaneous, or visceral leishmaniasis.

"We're well fed and have healthy immune systems, so hopefully we won't see visceral leishmaniasis in even one soldier."

At the other end of the spectrum, visceral leishmaniasis is an invasive infection with a lethal outcome.

Also called visceral leishmaniasis, the disease causes high fever, swelling of the spleen and massive weight loss.

But the strain humans are most susceptible to is visceral leishmaniasis, the disease affecting the foxhounds.

"It's the first time we've had a drug that can be orally administrated to treat visceral leishmaniasis," he said.

Current state of visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia.

Her most notable work was eight years in the South Sudan fighting an epidemic of visceral leishmaniasis, between 1989 and 1997.

Its most lethal form, visceral leishmaniasis attacks the internal organs and, if left untreated, is fatal usually within two years.

The disease, Kala-Azar or visceral leishmaniasis, can be cured in 30 days with proper medical attention.

However, a dozen developed visceral leishmaniasis.

One particular concern was lack of treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (Kala Azar).

Similar increases in risk factors are also driving higher rates of visceral leishmaniasis in north-eastern Brazil.

A 21-day course of paromomycin produces a definitive cure in >90% of patients with visceral leishmaniasis.

Visceral leishmaniasis affects vital organs and bone marrow, destroying white and red blood cells.

Visceral leishmaniasis, also called kala-azar, is a parasitic disease that strikes 400,000 people every year and kills around 1 in 10 of its victims.

Dr. Mishra's studies on Visceral leishmaniasis are considered by many as his most notable contribution.

Drug resistance in visceral leishmaniasis.