[Leish-l] FW: PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis - Pakistan (02): (KP)

Wed Dec 5 00:19:03 BRST 2012

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Date: 2012/11/22
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis - Pakistan (02): (KP)
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LEISHMANIASIS - PAKISTAN (02): (KHYBER AGENCY)

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Date: Tue 20 Nov 2012

Source: Frontier Post [edited]

<http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/192733/>

Leishmaniasis disease on rise in Khyber Agency

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The increasing number of leishmaniasis patients in areas of Khyber

Agency negates the claims of the Fata Health Department in taking

measures to eradicate the disease. Currently there are around 400 to

500 locals and Afghan refugees who are suffering from the disease in

the Khyber Agency areas near Pak-Afghan border.

Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites that belong

to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain

species of sand fly. It is a contiguous disease and according to the

experts mostly Afghan refugees bring the disease with them when they

enter the Pakistani border. Locals showing concern over the spread of

the disease said the alarming number of leishmaniasis patients was due

to the arrival of Afghan refugees in different areas of Khyber

Agency.

Perwaiz Khan of Landikotal Tehsil was of the view that lack of

awareness among people regarding the disease not only kept patients

away from the hospitals but also created problems for the health

department to contact the patients. He flayed Fata Secretariat and

health department for not devising plan to eliminate the disease. He

remarked that awareness programme at local levels should be initiated

and it would help root out the disease from the area. The children all

the day long are playing in a stagnant water in which the lethal

mosquitoes exist and resultantly they are attacked by mosquitoes,

Perwaiz reasoned.

On the other hand the Medical Officer in Torkham BHU Ilyas Afridi when

contacted said more than 350 registered patients of leishmaniasis

received free medicine and treatment and 80 percent of the patients

among them were recovered. Children who are working as laborers are

immensely affected because of leishmaniasis illness.

Coordinator of EDWS for Khyber Agency, Dr Shams ur Rehman said all the

reported leishmaniasis patients were equipped with medicine and were

properly recovered. He went on to say that they had handed over the

required medicines and injections to each BHUs and civil dispensaries.

Their team is responsible for visiting the spot and facilitating the

suffered patients by giving him free medicine even if the case

happened anywhere in Khyber Agency; Shams said and adding moving into

Bara Tehsil sometimes create impediments in their work.

[Byline: Farid Shinwari]

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[Leishmaniasis, especially cutaneous leishmaniasis, was highly endemic

in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime. The high number of

leishmaniasis (cutaneous we presume) among refugees from Afghanistan

underline the fact that the disease is not under control in

Afghanistan and that treatment facilities are inadequate. - Mod.EP

A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at:

<http://healthmap.org/r/1iGJ>.]

[see also:

Leishmaniasis - Pakistan: (KP) cutaneous: 20120429.1117486

Leishmaniasis - UK ex Afghanistan: military: 20120108.1003634

2010

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Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan (03): (HR): 20101106.4015

Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan (02) 20101016.3753

Leishmaniasis  Afghanistan 20101016.3750

2007

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Leishmaniasis  Afghanistan 20070508.1487

Leishmaniasis - Pakistan (Balochistan, Sindh)(02) 20050206.0403

Leishmaniasis - Pakistan (Balochistan, Sindh) 20050113.0115

2004

Leishmaniasis - Pakistan & India: background: 20040201.0392

Leishmaniasis - Pakistan (Sind) (02): 20040127.0324

Leishmaniasis - Pakistan (Sind): 20040126.0309

2003

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Leishmaniasis - Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan: military 20031024.2669

Leishmaniasis - Iraq: comments (02) 20030612.1445

Leishmaniasis - Iraq: comments 20030602.1348

Leishmaniasis - Iraq: RFI 20030531.1331

Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan 20030909.2267

2002

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Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan (07) 20020703.4662

Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan (06) 20020629.4633

Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan (05) 20020515.4212

Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan (04) 20020523.4304

Leishmaniasis - Afghanistan (Kabul): alert 20020508.4134

1996

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Infectious diseases - Afghanistan 19960802.1377]

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