[leish-l] RE: leish-l digest, Vol 1 #138 - 1 msg

[Leah Landi]

Does anyone know if this is confirmed Visceral or Cutaneous and what species
it comes from???

The most non-toxic medication would be miltefosine.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Baghdad Boil -- (Peter Singfield)

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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:49:24 -0600
To: leish-l at fat.org.br
From: Peter Singfield <snkm at btl.net>
Subject: [leish-l] Baghdad Boil --


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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