Sand flies and chiggers carrying infections

9 August 2018

Four deaths from 127 confirmed cases of Kala-Azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, have been recorded in residents of Kathmandu, Palpa, Jumla and Bajura this year. Read more. Palpa is also named as one of the affected areas in a report on scrub typhus - over the last two months there have been more than 100 cases from across 27 districts. Read more

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