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South Sudan steps up measures to contain kala-azar outbreak in Upper Nile
JUBA (9 Sep.)
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 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, Jonglei and Upper Nile...
South Sudan steps up measures to contain kala-azar outbreak in Upper Nile
JUBA (9 Sep.)
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 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, Jonglei and Upper Nile...