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• n  leishmaniasis of the viscera

• Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America.
• Along with kala-azar, this 11-year-old girl suffered from pneumonia, anemia and dysentery; she died that night.
• George Mosher, 14, "kala-azar victim" (PTI, July 1), died last week.

• visceral leishmaniasis
• Assam fever
• dumdum fever

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• Prithviraj Chauhan in Newindpress
  It would help in developing new drugs for the neglected diseases such a tuberculosis, malaria, kala-azar, filariasis, which are still a big threat in the Indian sub-continent,Chauhan said.