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- There has been a 98.7 per cent decline in cases of Kala-azar from 44,533 in 2007 to 834 in 2022 in India.
- India is committed to eliminating Kala-Azar from the country by 2023.
- Elimination is defined as reducing the annual incidence of Kala Azar to less than 1 case per 10,000 people at the sub-district level.
- Kala-azar is the considered the second deadliest parasitic killer in the world after Malaria.
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