Snowy Owl
Retired in 2010, In Memoriam
Bihar - in the district along the Ganges including Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi,Samastipur, Darbhanga and Motihari
http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?id=7510&cat=dis&lang=eng
http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?id=7510&cat=dis&lang=eng
Visceral Leishmaniasis, or black fever, has hit 36 of the total 38 districts in north India's Bihar, one of its least developed states, a health report said here Thursday. The majority of the epidemic cases in Bihar have been reported in the district along the Ganges including Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi,Samastipur, Darbhanga and Motihari, according to the report released by the Institute for One World Health (IOWH), a non-profit pharmaceutical company headquartered in the United States.
The world sees estimated 5 million new cases of black fever annually and 90 percent of them occurs in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Brazil and the Sudan, the report said. "The disease often strikes people living in the rural villages, frequently the poorest, who may not be able to afford treatments currently available.
If left untreated VL (Visceral Leishmaniasis) is nearly always fatal," said a representative of IOWH. The infection is transmitted between humans by sand flies, causing chronic fever, weight loss, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly and anemia.
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The world sees estimated 5 million new cases of black fever annually and 90 percent of them occurs in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Brazil and the Sudan, the report said. "The disease often strikes people living in the rural villages, frequently the poorest, who may not be able to afford treatments currently available.
If left untreated VL (Visceral Leishmaniasis) is nearly always fatal," said a representative of IOWH. The infection is transmitted between humans by sand flies, causing chronic fever, weight loss, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly and anemia.
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