... from rural villages to large cities as a result of migration of settlers from villages into these cities creating densely populated ghettos living sub-standard housing with improper sanitation and keeping farm animals in their gardens. The two cities of Teresin and Sao Luis together accounted for 40-50% of the total number of VL cases in Brazil during 1993 and 1994 ... resources required to access medical care are lacking. Unlike the VL in Brazil, in East Africa, where VL is most prevalent, it is spread through human-to-human transmission without animal reservoir. Due to this difference...

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