Saturday, 10 September 2016

PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis, visceral - South Sudan: (UN)

Leishmaniasis -- Sudan
Health authorities in South Sudan are collaboratively stepping up preventing measures to contain the increase in the number of cases of visceral leishmaniasis, commonly known as kala-azar in Upper Nile region.
Gogrial State health minister Angui Mayuot described the disease in an interview on Friday [9 Sep 2016] as a tropical, parasitic disease transmitted through bites from certain types of sand flies and is endemic in some parts of Western Bahr el Ghazal, Lakes, Western Equatoria,

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2c61Rkf

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