[Leish-l] Fw: Re: Human Lehismaniasis in children from Syria

[Richard Reithinger]

I presume that this would be very much akin to what happened in Afghanistan a couple of decades ago, with the conflict destroying the health infrastructure, affecting access to diagnosis and treatment, and --given the parasite being transmitted anthroponotically-- increases of cases are to be expected.

Richard

--- On Sat, 11/5/13, Ramon C. Soriguer <soriguer at ebd.csic.es> wrote:


From: Ramon C. Soriguer <soriguer at ebd.csic.es>
Subject: [Leish-l] Human Lehismaniasis in children from Syria
To: leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br
Date: Saturday, 11 May, 2013, 23:05




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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