Talk:Kala-azar

Nature

It may be of interest to Wikipedians that the journal Nature (20 April 2005) published an editorial on the (widely ignored) importance of articles on this (type of) topic:

The all-embracing open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia doesn’t have a dedicated page on kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis. But who cares? After all, the disease only transforms vast numbers of people in developing countries into walking skeletons [...]. [...] it often goes untreated, causing some 200,000 deaths each year. In the research and development (R&D) chains that lead to drugs, more attention is devoted to silicone breast implants and pills for erectile dysfunction than to the roughly 8,000 orphan diseases. [...]

[....]

A round table on neglected diseases [...] in Lyon, France, last week, left a depressing sense of how far we have all got to go [...].

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— Reference: "Wanted: social entrepreneurs"; Nature; 434 (7036) : pp.941–941
Note to all bush lawyers: it is generally acceptable use to copy (verbatim) extracts from (copyrighted) publications, hence the ellipsis above.
See also Wikipedia:Avoid_self-references

— DIV (128.250.204.118 07:49, 1 July 2007 (UTC))