Herbal answers for deadly diseases.Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. researcher shave found that extracts from two Mojave Desert plants can kill the parasites that cause leishmaniasis leishmaniasis (lēsh'mənī`əsĭs), any of a group of tropical diseases caused by parasitic protozoans of the genus Leishmania. and African sleeping sickness Af·ri·can sleeping sickness n. African trypanosomiasis. . These diseases afflict millions, primarily in developing nations, and are usually fatal if left untreated. Drugs based on chemicals from the dotted dalea and the Mojave dalea may offer a cheaper, safer, and more expedient alternative to the costly and sometimes nephrotoxic nephrotoxic /neph·ro·tox·ic/ (nef´ro-tok?sik) destructive to kidney cells. Nephrotoxic Toxic, or damaging, to the kidney. drugs currently used to treat the diseases. About 2 million new cases of leishmaniasis are reported each year. Sleeping sickness affects an estimated 50,000-500,000 people, mainly in rural sub-Saharan Africa. |
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