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<body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><br><br><br><blockquote><hr id="EC_stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:01:29 -0300<br>From: marizashaw@gmail.com<br>To: jayusp@hotmail.com<br>Subject: Fwd: PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis - Iraq: (Qadisiyah)<br><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="EC_gmail_quote">From: <b class="EC_gmail_sendername">ProMED-mail</b> <<a href="mailto:promed@promed.isid.harvard.edu">promed@promed.isid.harvard.edu</a>><br>Date: 19/02/2008 23:06<br>
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis - Iraq: (Qadisiyah)<br>To: <a href="mailto:promed-ahead-edr@promedmail.org">promed-ahead-edr@promedmail.org</a><br><br></span>LEISHMANIASIS - IRAQ: (QADISIYAH)<br>*********************************<br>
A ProMED-mail post<br><<a href="http://www.promedmail.org" target="_blank">http://www.promedmail.org</a>><br>ProMED-mail is a program of the<br>International Society for Infectious Diseases<br><br>Date: Tue 19 Feb 2008<br>Source: IRIN (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks) [edited]<br>
<<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76808" target="_blank">http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76808</a>><br><br><br>Leishmaniasis continues to spread in southern province<br>------------------------------------------------------<br>
Leishmaniasis continues to spread in Iraq's southern province of<br>Qadisiyah, about 130 km (81 mi) south of Baghdad, with at least 275<br>cases so far, a local official said.<br><br>The figure of 275 comprises 212 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis,<br>
also known as Baghdad boil disease, and 63 cases of visceral<br>leishmaniasis, or 'kalaazar', Hindi for black fever, said Mohammed<br>Sahib, a dermatologist at Qadisiyah General Hospital.<br><br>"Cutaneous leishmaniasis is not fatal, but can cause up to 200 facial<br>
lesions and crater-shaped sores, leaving patients seriously<br>disfigured. Kalaazar can kill, and causes fever, weight loss,<br>anaemia, and swelling of the spleen and liver," Sahib said.<br><br>Children are particularly at risk because they typically have weaker<br>
immune systems than adults, he said. A single sand fly bite can be<br>enough to transmit the disease.<br><br>Local health authorities were still suffering from a shortage of<br>medicines to treat the disease, he said: "The medicines are not<br>
enough, as the disease is spreading and in addition to medical<br>treatment there should be insecticide spraying campaigns to kill the<br>sand flies."<br><br>Faqid Abdul-Hadi of the Baghdad health directorate said overcrowded<br>
living conditions in southern Iraq, where it is difficult to access<br>clean water, and plenty of stagnant pools of water in which flies can<br>breed, had hampered progress against the disease.<br><br>He said leishmaniasis cases had dropped substantially since 2004, but<br>
progress eliminating the disease had been slow.<br><br>"Though the disease was first identified in Iraq more than a century<br>ago and has long been present in the country, outbreaks were rare<br>before 2003. But since the conflict began, the destroyed health<br>
system has allowed [microorganisms] lurking in the environment to<br>return," Abdul-Hadi said. The peak transmission season for<br>leishmaniasis typically begins in May, he said.<br><br>--<br>Communicated by:<br>ProMED-mail<br>
<<a href="mailto:promed@promedmail.org">promed@promedmail.org</a>><br><br>[Leishmaniasis is widespread in Iraq, but mostly as cutaneous<br>leishmaniasis. Please refer to the WHO statement concerning visceral<br>leishmaniasis in Iraq, published in ProMED-mail (Leishmaniasis -<br>
Iraq: comments 20030602.1348). We will be happy to receive further<br>information on the situation. - Mod.EP]<br><br>[The source URL contains a map of Iraq highlighting Qadisiyah<br>province. - CopyEd.MJ]<br><br>[see also:<br>
2005<br>----<br>Leishmaniasis - Iraq (Baqubah) 20050406.0989<br>2004<br>----<br>Leishmaniasis - Iraq: U.S. Military (04) 20040419.1091<br>Leishmaniasis - Iraq: U.S. Military (03) 20040402.0895<br>Leishmaniasis - Iraq: U.S. Military (02): comment 20040316.0729<br>
Leishmaniasis - Iraq: U.S. Military 20040313.0696<br>2003<br>----<br>Leishmaniasis - Iraq: U.S. military 20031210.3026<br>Leishmaniasis - Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan: military 20031024.2669<br>Leishmaniasis - Iraq: comments 20030602.1348<br>
Leishmaniasis - Iraq: RFI 20030531.1331<br>2001<br>----<br>Leishmaniasis, suspected - Iraq 20010917.2245]<br>...................................ep/mj/mpp<br><br>*##########################################################*<br>
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