[Leish-l] Human Lehismaniasis in children from Syria

[Prof. Dr. Moazzem Hossain]

20 May 2013
Dear Ramon

Thank you very much for sending this important  video /document.
Best wishes
Professor Dr. Moazzem Hossain
Bangladesh
Chairman, IACIB <www.iacib.org>


On 5/12/13, Ramon C. Soriguer <soriguer at ebd.csic.es> wrote:
> 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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