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Over the past three months, the disease has claimed the lives of 18 individuals, with more than 500 people reported to be infected.
The Wajir County government has launched an emergency response plan to contain a deadly outbreak of Kala-azar, a parasitic ...
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Kala-azar: New disease outbreak in Wajir claims 18 lives, 106 hospitalised
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.
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Solving a decades-long puzzle in leishmaniasis drug development
About 30 years ago, scientists discovered the two species of single-cell parasites that cause VL, Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum, made the same lipid sterol, called ergosterol ...