Leishmaniasis -- Syria
Inside a dank clinic in the north of war-torn Syria, a girl covered in scabs wails and tries to wriggle out of her mother's arms to escape a nurse's needle. Gently holding fluffy cotton wool over her eyes, the male health worker injects a transparent liquid into the crusty blemishes on the tip of her nose.
She is one of the hundreds in the northern province of Raqqa to be suffering from leishmaniasis, a skin disease caused by a microscopic parasite spread by sandflies. The illness is
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6439963&promed&0
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