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99.2
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98.7
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78.4
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95.9
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Detailed explanation-1: -India registers nearly 99 per cent decline in cases of Kala-Azar disease between 2007 & 2022. India registered a 98.7 percent decline in cases of Kala-Azar between 2007 and 2022. The cases in the country reduced from 44, 533 in 2007 to 834 in 2022.
Detailed explanation-2: -Earlier this month, Union Health Minister, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya shared that kala-azar (also known as visceral leishmaniasis) cases in India fell to 834 in 2022 from 44, 533 in 2007 – a 98.7% decline. India renewed its commitment of eliminating kala-azar from the country by the end of 2023.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kala-azar was a lethal disease in colonial India. Charles Donovan of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) in Madras discovered the parasite independently in 1903 while William Boog Leishman was carrying out his research in Great Britain.