Kala Azar

Kala Azar in India: Patients detected with PKDL, skin manifestation of the disease, say treatment is unbearable

From the epidemiological perspective, PKDL has to be treated promptly as it acts as a reservoir of the leishmaniasis parasite that causes Kala Azar.

Govt to launch ambitious drive to control many diseases, says Harsh Vardhan

An ambitious drive to eliminate or control a host of diseases, including measles, which affects lakhs of people and leave many killed every year will be launched, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said.

Government aims to eradicate Kala-azar by 2015, says Harsh Vardhan

The central government has formulated an intensive strategy for this purpose with the aim that nobody goes untreated or gets infected of this second largest parasitic killer in the world after Malaria, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said here today.

Will a potential vaccine help eradicate deadly kala azar?

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in Kolkata claim to have hit the bull's eye with a potential vaccine directed at the dreaded kala azar disease.