At present, there is no prophylactic (preventive) treatment and human vaccination is under study.

Prevention of leishmaniasis includes:

• Wearing covering clothing in risk areas.
• The fight against sandflies and the destruction of parasite reservoirs.
• The use of repellents (mosquito repellents) inside and around homes (stone walls, hutches, henhouses, garbage room, etc.).
• The use of mosquito nets impregnated with repellent. Be careful, some mosquito nets can be ineffective, because the sandfly, small in size, can pass through the mesh.
• The drying up of wetlands, like other pathologies transmitted by mosquitoes (malaria, chikungunya, etc.).
• Vaccination in dogs (“Canileish“, Virbac laboratories).
• The treatment of the dog’s habitat (kennel) by repellents and the wearing of a collar type “Scalibor»Impregnated with a powerful insecticide also having a repellent effect.