[HN Gopher] Indaba grand challenge: curing Leishmaniasis, a negl... ___________________________________________________________________ Indaba grand challenge: curing Leishmaniasis, a neglected disease Author : adsodemelk Score : 48 points Date : 2020-07-02 17:24 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (deeplearningindaba.com) (TXT) w3m dump (deeplearningindaba.com) | nrjames wrote: | Leishmaniasis occurs in Africa, but also in many other places. | The ceramic record in pre-Colombian Central and South America | includes depictions of people suffering from severe Mucocutaneous | Leishmaniasis, while Middle Eastern and British "explorers" into | India supposedly came across villages completely wiped out by | Visceral Leishmaniasis. It's even speculated that Machu Picchu | was built where it was because it was above the elevation where | Leishmaniasis occurs. I'm all for curing it because 2 of the 3 | forms are hideously dangerous (Cutaneous Leishmaniasis less so), | but it's disingenuous to call it an African disease. | msla wrote: | > Leishmaniasism | | This doesn't seem to be a word. Can we get someone to fix the | typo in the title? | tlb wrote: | Fixed, thanks. | sah2ed wrote: | Perhaps a better sounding title is "Help cure a neglected disease | prevalent in Africa" ? | | Leishmaniasis is not restricted to the African continent so the | slightly longer title of: "Help cure a neglected disease | prevalent in developing countries" may be more accurate. | NikolaeVarius wrote: | Seriously, there is already a official appropriate term for it: | neglected tropical disease (NTD). | | https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/leishmaniasis/index.html#:~:te... | . | [deleted] | dang wrote: | I don't see why we shouldn't follow the site guideline: " | _Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or | linkbait; don 't editorialize_". I've changed the title and | added "neglected disease", which is used in the opening | sentence almost as an extension of the title. | | Submitted title was "Help cure an African neglected disease" ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-02 23:00 UTC)