While still in nursing school, he witnessed the heartbreaking reality of patients arriving at hospitals too late for treatment.

Kala-azar is also known as visceral leishmaniasis. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the disease is ...

The Wajir County government has launched an emergency response plan to contain a deadly outbreak of Kala-azar, a parasitic ...

A deadly Kala-azar outbreak in Wajir has claimed 18 lives and infected over 500 people in three months. Health officials have ...

A deadly outbreak of Kala-azar, a parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania parasite, has hit Wajir County, leaving 18 dead and infecting more than 500 people in the last 3 months.

India is progressing towards eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) through political support, community involvement, ...

New immunotherapies have the potential to mediate a sustained remission from certain autoimmune diseases. This has been referred to as achieving an ‘immune reset’ in patients. Here ...

Conclusion and recommendations: The pooled prevalence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in East Africa was high. This underscores the urgent need for targeted public health initiatives to mitigate the impact ...

Bad news for Swamp People fans. Troy Landry has shared a heartbreaking update on his grandson, Crue, and his battle with end-stage liver disease. “Poor baby been on the transplant list for two m ...

Marcela Henao-Tamayo receives funding from NIAID, NIH and OEDIT. An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

First, cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis can mimic other diseases (eg, autoimmune and autoinflammatory disorders, malignancies, genetic immunodeficiency syndromes, other chronic ...

At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms and 53 have died, the WHO said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in ...