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Horrible Flesh-Eating Parasite Spreads With Muslims


From Patricia Doyle
6-2-16

 
Hello Jeff - You have to see the photos with this article to really understand how tragic Leishmaniasis is.  As fleeing Syrians leave, they bring this infection with them to host countries.

Leishmaniasis is spread via sand flies which are found in many tropical and temperate countries.  They are now finding that Leishmaniasis has spread to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and across even to Libya.

The WHO is now worried that the disease might have spread to Europe and beyond. They compared it to the way Ebola spread across West Africa and beyond.

Thanks to Obama we may find that Leishmaniasis has made its way to the US and Canada.

If Obama really wanted to help these people, just end the war and get the troops out of the middle east.

Patty


Flesh-eating tropical bug sweeps the Middle East after thriving in ISIS-strongholds

5-30-16

A FLESH-EATING tropical disease is sweeping the Middle East and may yet end up in Europe, after Islamic State’s civil war helped to create the perfect breeding grounds for infected vectors.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by bites from infected sand flies, which are thriving in the squalid conditions created by the war in the Middle East.

The disease can eventually lead to severe scarring, and is spreading rapidly as displaced people and refugees flee the ISIS strongholds where the disease is thriving, The Sun reports.

The Kurdish Red Crescent had previously claimed that rotting corpses dumped on the streets by ISIS fighters were contributing to the spread of the disease, although scientists at the School of Tropical Medicine have disproved this claim.

Previously, the disease had been contained to Syria, where it thrived in ISIS-controlled regions such as Raqqa, Deir al-Zour and Hasakah, but now the parasite is eating its way through the entire region.

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the disease has recently begun to flourish in Syria’s neighbouring countries. The disease has emerged in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan, after over four million Syrians fled the country to seek asylum from the bloody conflict in their home country.

Between 2000 and 2012, there were only six reported cases of the disease in Lebanon.

But in 2013 alone there were 1033 cases reported, with the Lebanese Ministry of Health claiming that as many as 96 per cent of all cases occurred among displaced Syrian refugees.

Turkey, Jordan and Yemen have also reported hundreds of cases, with health experts concerned that the disease may soon spread to Saudi Arabia as well.

It is possible that the disease has already been spread to Europe by refugees, who are made more susceptible to illness while living in temporary camps.

These camps tend to be overcrowded, with poor medical facilities and low hygiene standards similar to the conditions in the Middle East, where the disease originated.

Dr Waleed Al-Salem, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, told MailOnline: “It’s a very bad situation. The disease has spread dramatically in Syria, but also into countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and even into southern Europe with refugees coming in.

“There are thousands of cases in the region but it is still underestimated because no one can count the exact number of people affected. When people are bitten by sand flies — which are tiny and smaller than a mosquito — it can take anything between two to six months to have the infection.”

He continued: “Someone might have picked it up in Syria but then they may have fled into Lebanon or Turkey, or even into Europe as they seek refuge. Prior to the outbreak of war there was good control of diseases, parasites and sand flies but when the conflict started no one cared, conditions worsened and the health system broke down, which has created an ideal environment for disease outbreaks.”

Peter Hotez, dean of the US National School of Tropical Medicine, added: “We need to ring fence them or risk another situation like Ebola out of the conflict zones in West Africa in 2014.

“We are only getting glimpses of the situation from refugees fleeing the conflict zones and going to camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.”

Doctors at the World Health Organisation categorise the disease as “neglected”, claiming that improved conditions at refugee camps and early treatment attempts would go some way to halting its spread.

“In the context of the Syrian crisis the cutaneous leishmaniasis form caused by L. tropica is the most important in terms of risk of being introduced in neighbouring countries. It also presents more treatment failures (up to 20% of cases may become chronic),” WHO doctors write online.

http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/flesheating-tropical-bug-sweeps-through-the-middle-east-after-thriving-in-isisstrongholds/news-story/6f278b4a02d98434ad53927a10bf978b



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