Co-ops shift from studying a tropical disease to fighting a new outbreak
Sarah Weihl and Catherine Wenger, both fifth-year students at Northeastern, had only recently begun their research into visceral leishmaniasis on co-op in Chemolingot, Kenya, when word of a new endemic outbreak of the disease elsewhere in the country reached them. The students, part of a team of researchers tapped by the Kenyan Ministry of Health, helped establish a new clinic for the affected community.
