Doctors trying to fight visceral leishmaniasis are facing a growing problem of drug resistance, said WHO . Up to 60 percent of patients in India cannot be cured with current treatments, which are given intravenously and require up to a month in a hospital.
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In October 1952, the young BV Oriedo s skills were put to the test when he was tasked to lead efforts to stem a major epidemic outbreak of a deadly parasitic " Kala-azar ( black fever ) or visceral leishmaniasis " disease in Kenya, and parts of Uganda.
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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 1903, together with Alphonse Laveran ( 1845 1922 ), he showed that the parasite responsible for the visceral leishmaniasis ( or " Kala-azar ", a fever in India ), first described by William Boog Leishman ( 1865 1926 ), is a new protozoa, different from " Trypanosoma ", the agent of the sleeping sickness, and from " Plasmodium ", the agent of paludism ( malaria ).
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His astute epidemiological and parasitological medical research and field observations of " visceral leishmaniasis " in East and Central Africa, and the Sudan revealed that under " ceteris paribus " male and female populations exposed to the disease experience different symptoms or sometimes no symptoms; further, the seropositivity rate was higher in females than the males; whereas, using the leishmanin skin test, higher prevalence in males was been recorded.
