[Leish-l] Human Lehismaniasis in children from Syria

[Ramon C. Soriguer]

A syrian colleague, send to me this link on a video about lehismania in 
children and how the civil war increased dramatically the cases of  
lehismaniasis in this country. Of course it is hard to listen the local doctor 
comments and to separate its from the political situation but  even so, this 
video do not invalidate the lehismaniosis effects in the syrian children.
http://vimeo.com/65205724

Of course I am shocked about the real impact of this outbreak (see video 
and paper)  but probably it is the only way to understand the sanitary and 
social problem dimension. 

More scientific information about the outbreak of lehismaniasis in Syria:
http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/6/1/94
Cite this article as: Alasaad: War diseases revealed by the social media:
massive leishmaniasis outbreak in the Syrian Spring. Parasites & Vectors
2013 6:94.
doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-94

Ramon


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Ramon C. Soriguer
Estación Biológica de Doñana
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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