Impavido to treat leishmaniasis receives FDA approval
PRESS RELEASE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Impavido (miltefosine) to treat a tropical disease called leishmaniasis. Phlebotomus papatasi sand flyImage/CDC Leishmaniasis is a disease caused More...
Pakistan: More than 1,000 people infected with leishmaniasis in Kohat: Report
More than 1,000 people mostly women and children in Barh, Jabbi, and other areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan have contracted leishmaniasis, according to a Pakistani news source recently. The report More...
The spread of Leishmaniasis , ‘Mystery disease’ in Central America: A discussion with Dr. Peter Hotez
On the Saturday, March 8 airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, Dr. Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of More...
California Polio-like paralysis, Leishmaniasis are the topics to be covered on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show
This Saturday, March 8 at 12 pm, two great expert guests will appear on the Tampa Bay-based talk radio program, Outbreak News This Week with host, Robert Herriman to discuss some big issues in infectious diseases. Slated More...
Brazil: Leishmaniasis deaths in Mato Grosso do Sul up 44% since 2010
The number of fatalities due to the parasitic disease, visceral leishmaniasis has increased by 43.75 percent in the Central-Western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, according to a Campo Grande News report More...
What is leishmaniasis?
There are dozens of countries in the old world and the new where you could get this disfiguring and potentially fatal disease. During the past 2 decades, much of the press has been on soldiers returning from the More...
As Syria’s health system crumbles, health officials are ‘deeply concerned’ about risk of potential outbreaks: WHO
With the ongoing armed conflict and chaos in Syria between forces loyal to the Syrian Ba’ath Party government and those seeking to oust it going past two years and counting and the crumbling of the country’s More...
