[HN Gopher] Indaba grand challenge: curing Leishmaniasis, a negl...
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       Indaba grand challenge: curing Leishmaniasis, a neglected disease
        
       Author : adsodemelk
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2020-07-02 17:24 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | 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
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       | 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...
         | .
        
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         | 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"
        
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