Leishmaniasis -- Spain
When the health authorities in Fuenlabrada, a southwest suburb of Madrid, noticed a spike in cases of the tropical disease leishmaniasis in 2010, their efforts to track down its origins became an epidemiological detective story.
Leishmaniasis has been endemic in dogs in southern Europe for centuries, but there is widespread acquired immunity among humans. Spain normally has about 200 cases in humans a year, but in the course of this outbreak (later determined as being between 2009 and
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