The outbreak of kala-azar is taking an epidemic form as a good number of people have been attacked by the deadly disease in Chatmohor upazila of the district.
A spurt in the number of kala-azar cases in tribal-dominated Boyarizore and Sundar Paharia blocks in the district has prompted the Godda health department to push the panic button.
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). Although more than a dozen NTDs affect the region, over the past five years four of them in particular
The Centre on Friday informed Parliament that the use of the DDT other than in eradication of diseases like malaria and kala azar, is completely banned in the country.
View image New facts discovered about the kala azar parasite kala azar (leishmaniasis) is difficult to treat. Inaccurate diagnosis saw this disease take its toll on 33,000 Indians in 2008. An occurrence more of the poverty-stricken countries, very little research exists on Leishmania
The incidence of kala azar, an infectious disease, in India is among the highest in the world and 2.5 million cases of kala azar are detected globally every year, said Professor V P Sharma, former director of Malaria Research Centre in Delhi and Additional Director General, ICMR, at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) in Mohali on Thursday.
