The total collapse of the Syrian health infrastructure has led to the spread of diseases, including polio, measles, and, now, cutaneous leishmaniasis. The most common form of leishmaniasis, CL causes ...

Leishmaniasis is one of the tropical diseases that is spreading due to global warming, and features in the World Health Organisation’s list of neglected tropical diseases. It is actually a group of ...

The 3-year-old Shih Tzu likely contracted leishmaniasis after being bitten by an infected dog they lived with Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

A disfiguring tropical disease is sweeping across the Middle East as a combination of heavy conflict and a breakdown of health care facilities in Isis-occupied areas leaves swathes of people ...

Researchers have developed a potential vaccine for visceral leishmaniasis, a deadly parasitic disease that kills about 60,000 people each year. It is a fundamentally new leishmaniasis "candidate" ...

On Aug. 29, the Ohio State research team announced it reached human trials for two vaccines against a tropical, often neglected, parasitic skin disease after they were found successful in animals.

As a child Andrew Ochieng survived the world's second deadliest parasite. Today he is working to stop this little-known killer from the back of a motorbike.

There's a scary new disease out there that could potentially harm not only horses, but also humans. Less than two years ago a team of Florida-based veterinarians published a report of the first equine ...

Susceptibility to leishmaniasis is influenced by multiple host genes, most of which are low-penetrance QTLs. They have been difficult to map in humans because of their number, the genetic ...

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Each year, about 2 million people contract leishmaniasis, which results in disfiguring skin ulcers that may take months or years to heal and in rare cases can become metastatic, causing major tissue ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced its market research report on the leishmaniasis market. The report includes a detailed analysis of the pipeline molecules under investigation within ...