Measures and Control of Kala-azar

This chapter describes the various measures and control strategy taken into account for kala-azar transmission. This chapter provides a brief introduction of pandemic history of kala-azar with special reference to World Health Organization and the universal plan adopted for the disease control strategy. A brief overview of disease control strategy has been described in this chapter. The future direction of geoinformatics and environmental and mathematical models to be adopted for disease control programs and strengthening control strategies is discussed. This chapter also describes the proposed approach of telemedicine, smart phone, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data science, and IoT in kala-azar control programs. A short synopsis of recent and future challenges of disease control strategy is also taken into account.

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