Leishmaniasis -- Iraq
US service members deployed to Iraq showed signs of having been infected with latent visceral leishmaniasis during their service, researchers said.
In one study, latent visceral leishmaniasis was identified in asymptomatic Operation Iraqi Freedom soldiers (10.2 percent of 88), potentially putting them at risk of activation of the disease if they are immunosuppressed, according to Edgie-Mark Co of the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas .
In another study, 20 veterans
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