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Date: 2010/4/6<br>Subject: RE: [Leish-l] name<br>To: Carlos Costa <<a href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com">chncosta@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">'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! </font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">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.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">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.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">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.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Regards,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Dick Ashford</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Consultant Biologist</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Richard W. Ashford DSc</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br" target="_blank">leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br</a> [<a href="mailto:leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br" target="_blank">leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br</a>] On Behalf Of Carlos Costa [<a href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com" target="_blank">chncosta@gmail.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 23 March 2010 23:02<br><b>To:</b> Leish-L<br><b>Subject:</b> [Leish-l] name<br></font><br></div>
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<div><strong>Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar? Which, when, how?</strong> </div>
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<div>Carlos.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.<br>Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella<br>Universidade Federal do Piauí<br>Brazil<br>Telephone: +55 86 3221-3413<br><br></div></div></div></div>
</div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.<br>Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella<br>Universidade Federal do Piauí<br>Brazil<br>Telephone: +55 86 3221-3413<br><br>As informações contidas nesta mensagem são CONFIDENCIAIS, protegidas pelo sigilo legal, por direitos autorais e destinadas exclusivamente à pessoa ou organização para a qual a mensagem foi destinada.<br>
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