Talk:Kala-azar
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Nature
[edit]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. [...]
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- 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