Some of the children admitted at Mwingi level IV hospital suffering from the tropical kala-azar disease in February 2022. Four children lost their lives to the disease. [Philip Muasya, Standard] ...
Kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis), also called black fever, is on the cusp of elimination in India, with a decline in cases from 77102 in 1992 to 9241 in 2014, 524 cases in 2023 and finally, to only ...