Cases of Kala-azar in South Sudan have gone down compared to last year.
Talking to SCR News, the director of communicable diseases in GoSS ministry of health, John Lagu, said that officials reported a Kala-azar’s decrease trend during a review meeting.However, he said the decrease does not mean the end of the disease adding that more efforts need to be made to get rid of the deadly illness.
The World Health Organization reported last year Kala-azar cases had multiplied six times more than the previous years and there were more than 600 deaths.
Kala-azar is transmitted throuhg the bite of sand flies and has a high mortality rate of over 95 percent if not treated on time.