[Leish-l] Fwd: name

[btekwani at olemiss.edu]

 I agree with Dr Shyam Sunder, technically it may be right but in 
practice kala azar & VL are synonymous.
Babu Tekwani



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> Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Fwd: name
> From: Shyam Sundar <drshyamsundar at hotmail.com>
> To: Leish-L <Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br>
> Date: Friday, 04/16/2010 2:13 PM
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> It will be impossible erase kala-azar from leishmaniasis, you might 
> try and restrict it to anthroponotic VL. It originated from the deadly 
> black fever without treatment. Now also you do see occasional blackish 
> discoloration. For most of us, VL and kala-azar us synonymous.
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> From: Carlos Costa
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:54 AM
> To: Leish-L
> Subject: [Leish-l] Fwd: name
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> From: Ashford, R <ashford at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Date: 2010/4/6
> Subject: RE: [Leish-l] name
> To: Carlos Costa <chncosta at gmail.com>
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> 'Visceral leishmaniasis' is correct for all versions.  Personally I 
> much prefer to restrict 'kala azar' to the anthroponotic disease in 
> the Indian subcontinent.  The epidemiology is so different from that 
> of L. infantum infection that they deserve different names. The 
> disease in East Africa is a problem!
>
> A serious constraint in advocacy of leish, one of the many reasons why 
> malaria is so much better known, is the confusion over the names and 
> the unfamiliarity of both 'leishmaniasis' and 'kala azar' in the 
> public consciousness.  Neither leish nor k-a is a household name.
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> This doesn't answer your question and, fortunately, we have no 
> 'Academy' of the English language, so there is no definitive answer.  
> All versions are 'correct' if they are routinely used, which means 
> they have to be explained and defined whenever they are used.
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> By the way, I believe the 'kala', which means 'black' (same root as 
> 'coal') refers not to skin colour, but to the seriousness of 
> epidemics, as with 'black death' for whatever disease(s) (bubonic 
> plague?) killed so many people at that time.
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> Regards,
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> Dick Ashford
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> Richard W. Ashford DSc
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> From: leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br 
> [leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br] On Behalf Of Carlos Costa 
> [chncosta at gmail.com]
> Sent: 23 March 2010 23:02
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> Subject: [Leish-l] name
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> Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar? Which, when, how?
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> Carlos.
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> Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella
> Universidade Federal do PiauÃ
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> Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.
> Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella
> Universidade Federal do PiauÃ
> Brazil
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