While the fight against AIDS is widely covered in the media, deaths caused by malaria, tuberculosis, the parasitic disease kala azar and sleeping sickness _ all of which can be treated effectively _ received little press attention, the report said.
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OneWorld is now gobbling up rights to drug candidates sitting on companies'shelves that could treat illnesses caused by parasites, such as kala azar _ Hindi for " black fever " _ and infant diarrhea, a leading cause of infant mortality around the world.
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Each visitor will be able to spin a Wheel of Misfortune and receive a color-coded card with a diagnosis, a narrative of a real person who has contracted sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, or kala azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis, a wasting disease carried by a sand fly.
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In 1901, while examining pathologic specimens of a spleen from a patient who had died of Leishman-Donovan bodies ( not to be confused with Donovan bodies, which are found in Granuloma inguinale, which is caused by " Klebsiella granulomatis " ) and recognized as the protozoan that causes kala azar, " Leishmania donovani ".
