Leishmaniasis — Pakistan
The outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a rising epidemic in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency [Federally Administered Tribal Areas, FATA] has raised alarms as 193 cases of the disease have been registered recently. Agency Surgeon Dr Raza Ullah feared the disease might break into other parts of the Agency.
Talking to Daily Times, he said the drive of vaccination to control leishmaniasis has been launched on emergency basis in the Safi tehsil. However, health authorities in other tehsils of the
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