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  • Pakistan: KP asks WHO to help stop cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak

    Source: http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/a...6/newsbrief-07

    KP asks WHO to help stop cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak
    By Ashfaq Yusufzai
    2012-04-26

    PESHAWAR ? The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Health Department has sought help from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to contain an outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), an official said.

    ?During the last three months, about 889 cases of CL have been recorded from 14 districts,? Dr. Muhammad Iqbal of the Health Department told Central Asia Online April 25. ?We have requested the WHO to intervene.?

    Nowshera District had the most cases, 214, he said...

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    Re: Pakistan: KP asks WHO to help stop cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak

    Sand fly assault: New disease takes the locals of Chattar by surprise
    By Sehrish Wasif
    Published: May 16, 2012

    "The administration lacks the expertise to control the spread of this disease because it is new," Deputy Commissioner Amir Ali Ahmed.
    ISLAMABAD:
    About 70 people in Karlot near Chattar have been affected by cutaneous leishmaniasis, a skin ulcer caused by infected female sand flies, but less than half have approached doctors for treatment.
    According to the information gathered from the rural health centre (RHC) in Bhara Kahu, 24 patients out of these 70 have been registered and are currently under treatment.
    Talking to The Express Tribune, a senior health official in RHC appointed to conduct a research on this disease, who wished not to be named, said the majority of victims are children and women because sand flies live in cracks of the walls inside houses.
    ...
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