[Leish-l] Fwd: name

[Carlos Costa]

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From: Anthony Bryceson <a.bryceson at doctors.net.uk>
Date: 2010/4/7
Subject: Re: [Leish-l] name
To: Carlos Costa <chncosta at gmail.com>


Visceral leishmaniasis is the term used internationally

Kala-azar is the traditional name for the disease on the Indian
subcontinent. Kala means black in HIndi; azar is said to mean fever in
Assamese. Some say that black refers to the change in skin colour, some that
it refers to the dreadful nature of the epidemic disease, as in the Black
Death in Europe.

PKDL still means post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis. Mercifully no one
seems to be pushing for PVLDL

Would my Indian friends care to comment?

Best wishes

Dr Anthony Bryceson
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
address for correspondence
The Bulls House
3 Rousham Road
Tackley
Kidlington
OX5 3BB
United KIngdom
Tel/Fax +44 (0) 1869 331027






On 23 Mar 2010, at 23:02, Carlos Costa wrote:

> Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar? Which, when, how?
>
> Carlos.
>
> --
> Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.
> Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella
> Universidade Federal do Piauí
> Brazil
> Telephone: +55 86 3221-3413
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Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.
Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella
Universidade Federal do Piauí
Brazil
Telephone: +55 86 3221-3413

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