[leish-l] Baghdad Boil --

[Chris peacock]

Hi,
The name Baghdad boil has been around for ages as a name for old world
cutaneous leishmaniasis, together with other variations like Oriental
sore, Delhi boil, bouton de Biskra, Aleppo boil, bouton d'Orient,
Saleki, Kandehar sore, little sister and Pendeh sore. These are ones i
know about but i am sure there are other local variations that could be
added to the list. When you add those names that describe New World
cutaneous leishmaniasis like uta, pian bois, forest yaws, Bosch yaws,
white leprosy, chicerlos ulcer and espundia together with those that
describe visceral leishmanisis like kala azar, black sickness, Sirkari
disease, Sahib's disease, Burdwan fever, Dum Dum fever, Pono and Mardi
el Bicha, leishmanisis must be the disease with the greatest number of
pseudonyms. Anybody know of any others?

Cheers

Chris

Peter Singfield wrote:
> 
> New name for cutaneous Leishmaniasis??
> 
> Baghdad Boil' disease afflicts 148 GIs in Iraq
> 
> 05.12.2003 [17:15]
> 
> 
> Nearly 150 U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been diagnosed with a parasitic skin
> disease and hundreds more could unknowingly be infected, doctors reported
> Thursday.
> 
> Doctors fear that soldiers returning from the front may consult doctors in
> the United States who have never seen the disease. Complicating matters:
> The best drug used to treat it is not licensed in the United States.
> 
> Leishmaniasis, which soldiers have coined the "Baghdad Boil," is carried by
> biting sand flies and doesn't spread from person to person. It causes skin
> lesions that if untreated may take months, even years, to heal. The lesions
> can be disfiguring, doctors say.
> 
> So far, 148 soldiers have confirmed cases, but hundreds more are expected,
> says Army Lt. Col. Russell Coleman, an entomologist who spent 10 months in
> Iraq with the 520th Theater Army Medical Laboratory. He reported the
> outbreak Thursday to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,
> meeting in Philadelphia.
> 
> Sand flies are active during warm weather, and soon after U.S. troops
> arrived in Iraq in late March, "we started seeing soldiers basically eaten
> alive," Coleman says. "They'd get a hundred, in some cases 1,000 bites in a
> single night."
> 
> Insect repellents and bed nets are standard issue, Coleman says, but many
> units failed to pack them when they were deployed.
> 
> The sand flies have vanished with the cooler weather in Iraq, but because
> of a long incubation period, lesions may not appear for six months or
> longer after infection occurs. Coleman and Army Lt. Col. Peter Weina, a
> leishmaniasis expert still in Iraq, predicted in April that there would be
> 400 cases.
> 
> All affected soldiers are being sent to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
> Washington, D.C., to be treated with the drug Pentosam.
> 
> 
>  USA Today
> 
> Article found at:
> 
> http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=28318&lang=en
> 
> 
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