In a powerful demonstration of country-driven leadership and cross-border solidarity, Ministry of Health representatives from various African ...

She says the influx of cases peaks between November and March – transmission by sandflies during the summer, followed by an incubation period that produces the lesions. Cutaneous leishmaniasis ...

especially Ps. wellcomei and Ny. whitmani, indicate a significant potential for leishmaniasis transmission in the area ...

Leishmaniasis can incubate for a very long time. Dogs may not show symptoms for months or years after being infected. Transmission is most common in tropical climates, particularly in the ...

Backgrounds: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a vector-borne disease posing increasing public health concerns. Although efforts to eliminate VL are underway, its global risk distribution remains unclear ...

BACKGROUND In Brazil, transmission of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis has expanded geographically over the last decades, with both clinical forms occurring simultaneously in the same area.

It looks like eliminating visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India as a public health ... inside the person’s body and that person can unknowingly become a source of transmission if clinical signs and ...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 31 (ANI): The World Health Organisation on Tuesday announced the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis as a public health problem in Bangladesh, the interruption of leprosy ...

Maldives is the first country to verify the interruption of transmission of leprosy ... diseases like lymphatic filariasis, visceral leishmaniasis and leprosy, along with the threat to children ...