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,
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