Bangladesh achieves historic milestone by eliminating kala-azar as a public health problem
www.who.int
In a monumental achievement, Bangladesh has become the first country in the world to be officially validated for having eliminated visceral leishmaniasis, commonly known as kala-azar, as a public health problem.
  • OtterOPMA
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    1 year ago

    It’s such a horrible disease, so this is great news

    Bangladesh was successfully validated by WHO based on the fact that the number of reported cases of visceral leishmaniasis was below 1 per 10 000 population in each of the country’s subdistricts for at least 3 consecutive years.

    This might make people look it up anyways but: the images can be hard to look at, so please be advised