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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My understanding is that all the cases so
far have been <span class=SpellE>cutaneous</span> <span class=SpellE>leishmaniasis</span>
and have been L. major.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-no-proof:yes'>Peter J.
Myler, Ph.D.</span></font><font color=navy><span lang=DE style='color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-no-proof:yes'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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Associate Professor</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy;
mso-no-proof:yes'> <br>
</span></font><font color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;
color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>Department of Pathobiology</span></font><font
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</span></font><font color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;
color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>Adjunct Research Associate Professor <br>
Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'><br>
</span></font><font color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;
color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>Department of Medical Education and Biomedical
Informatics<br>
University of Washington</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy;
mso-no-proof:yes'> <br>
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color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>Seattle, WA 98195</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Leah Landi
[mailto:llandi@americasmart.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 08, 2003
6:22 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'leish-l@fat.org.br'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [leish-l] RE: leish-l
digest, Vol 1 #138 - 1 msg</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Does anyone know if this is confirmed Visceral or
Cutaneous and what species it comes from???</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The most non-toxic medication would be miltefosine.</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>LEAH M. LANDI </span></font><br>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: leish-l-request@fat.org.br [<a
href="mailto:leish-l-request@fat.org.br">mailto:leish-l-request@fat.org.br</a>]
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<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003
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<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>To: leish-l@fat.org.br</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: leish-l digest, Vol 1 #138
- 1 msg</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Today's Topics:</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> 1. Baghdad Boil -- (Peter Singfield)</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>--__--__--</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Message: 1</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:49:24
-0600</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>To: leish-l@fat.org.br</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: Peter Singfield
<snkm@btl.net></span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: [leish-l] Baghdad Boil --</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>New name for cutaneous Leishmaniasis??</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Baghdad Boil' disease afflicts 148 GIs in Iraq </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>05.12.2003 [17:15] </span></font><br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Nearly 150 U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been diagnosed
with a parasitic skin</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>disease and hundreds more could
unknowingly be infected, doctors reported</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thursday. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Doctors fear that soldiers returning from the front
may consult doctors in</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the United States who have never
seen the disease. Complicating matters:</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The best drug used to treat it is
not licensed in the United States. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Leishmaniasis, which soldiers have coined the
"Baghdad Boil," is carried by</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>biting sand flies and doesn't
spread from person to person. It causes skin</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>lesions that if untreated may take
months, even years, to heal. The lesions</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>can be disfiguring, doctors say. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>So far, 148 soldiers have confirmed cases, but hundreds
more are expected,</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>says Army Lt. Col. Russell Coleman,
an entomologist who spent 10 months in</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Iraq with the 520th Theater Army
Medical Laboratory. He reported the</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>outbreak Thursday to the American
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>meeting in Philadelphia. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sand flies are active during warm weather, and soon
after U.S. troops</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>arrived in Iraq in late March,
"we started seeing soldiers basically eaten</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alive," Coleman says.
"They'd get a hundred, in some cases 1,000 bites in a</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>single night." </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Insect repellents and bed nets are standard issue,
Coleman says, but many</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>units failed to pack them when they
were deployed. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The sand flies have vanished with the cooler weather
in Iraq, but because</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>of a long incubation period,
lesions may not appear for six months or</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>longer after infection occurs.
Coleman and Army Lt. Col. Peter Weina, a</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>leishmaniasis expert still in Iraq,
predicted in April that there would be</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>400 cases. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>All affected soldiers are being sent to Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Washington, D.C., to be treated
with the drug Pentosam. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> USA Today </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Article found at:</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=28318〈=en"
target="_blank">http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=28318<font
face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";mso-fareast-font-family:
PMingLiU'>〈</span></font>=en</a></span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>--__--__--</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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