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A disfiguring disease ... is moving into the US - leishmaniasis
Techinsider.com ^ | Oct. 20, 2015 | Kevin Loria

Posted on 12/13/2015 9:27:29 PM PST by EinNYC

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Thanks Hillary & Odungo!
1 posted on 12/13/2015 9:27:29 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

Love how they try to blame it on the planet getting warmer. Trolling for research grants...

Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with infected people from infested areas moving across borders...


2 posted on 12/13/2015 9:33:25 PM PST by piasa
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To: EinNYC

Third World countries get Third World diseases.

But at least we will be diverse.


3 posted on 12/13/2015 9:33:56 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: EinNYC
It's pretty debilitating. It makes you look like:


4 posted on 12/13/2015 9:36:18 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: EinNYC

If you bring in more of “over there”, eventually we’ll look like “over there”.


5 posted on 12/13/2015 9:36:35 PM PST by optiguy (If government is the answer, it was a stupid question.)
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To: EinNYC

Interesting. They are perfectly willing to throw the Spanish speakers under the bus to obscure the Syrian refujidhists bringing it here along with their terrorism skills...


6 posted on 12/13/2015 9:36:59 PM PST by null and void (muslims don't kill people, Climate Change kills people!)
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To: EinNYC

“But this disease can survive anywhere that the various types of sandflies that carry it can live, and researchers have found that their range is expanding as the planet gets warmer. “

Gotta get that Hoax plug in there.


7 posted on 12/13/2015 9:38:18 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: EinNYC

isn’t this what issis is suffering from too?


8 posted on 12/13/2015 9:43:49 PM PST by Bob434
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It’s spreading because we cannot test our “immigrants” as was done with our ancestors. If they had a disease or were criminals, they were turned away.

Thanks to “self-immigration” many diseases, some previously eradicated in this country, are rising.


9 posted on 12/13/2015 9:52:25 PM PST by Calpublican (This statement incites violence against radical Islamism)
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To: freedumb2003

Poor dear. Bless her heart.


10 posted on 12/13/2015 9:52:58 PM PST by Calpublican (This statement incites violence against radical Islamism)
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To: Bob434

Yes. Interesting coincidence, ya think?


11 posted on 12/13/2015 9:54:32 PM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: EinNYC
Interesting article so longon scare but so short on details!

Is the sandfly what part of the host / source lifecycle? Is it a parasitic carrier that lays eggs and hatch in the host person? Is it a bacteria from the bite? Is it a virus that uses the host as the carrier?

Well here's the real story, sans the agenda.

Leishmaniasis, also spelled leishmaniosis, is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania and spread by the bite of certain types of sandflies.[2] The disease can present in three main ways: cutaneous, mucocutaneous, or visceral leishmaniasis.[2] The cutaneous form presents with skin ulcers, while the mucocutaneous form presents with ulcers of the skin, mouth, and nose, and the visceral form starts with skin ulcers and then later presents with fever, low red blood cells, and enlarged spleen and liver.

Infections in humans are caused by more than 20 species of Leishmania.[2] Risk factors include poverty, malnutrition, deforestation, and urbanization.[2] All three types can be diagnosed by seeing the parasites under the microscope.[2] Additionally, visceral disease can be diagnosed by blood tests.

] Leishmaniasis can be partly prevented by sleeping under nets treated with insecticide.[2] Other measures include spraying insecticides to kill sandflies and treating people with the disease early to prevent further spread.[2] The treatment needed is determined by where the disease is acquired, the species of Leishmania, and the type of infection.[2] Some possible medications used for visceral disease include liposomal amphotericin B,[4] a combination of pentavalent antimonials and paromomycin,[4] and miltefosine.[5] For cutaneous disease, paromomycin, fluconazole, or pentamidine may be effective.

About 12 million people are currently infected[7] in some 98 countries.[3] About 2 million new cases[3] and between 20 and 50 thousand deaths occur each year.[2][8] About 200 million people in Asia, Africa, South and Central America, and southern Europe live in areas where the disease is common.[3][9] The World Health Organization has obtained discounts on some medications to treat the disease.[3] The disease may occur in a number of other animals, including dogs and rodents.

Time for another Ivermectin shot I suppose. Not the Bovine one, but the one approved for swine. 5ml's per 100 pounds of body weight.

12 posted on 12/13/2015 9:55:55 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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There is plenty of research on Leishmaniasis; it was one of the top contenders for bio-weapons research back in the 60’s.
I would be willing to bet that if any of the people working at Fort Detrick, Maryland, wanted (or were allowed) to talk about it, there is probably a cure or vaccination on the shelf right now.
I still blame OBASTARD, THE STATE DEPARTMENT, EVERYBODY IN THE OBASTARD ADMINISTRATION, and LIBTARDS IN GENERAL for allowing these diseases and parasitic infections from THIRD WORLD SH#THOLES into the United States.


13 posted on 12/13/2015 10:01:25 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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NO; PUT A STAKE IN HER BLACK, EVIL, HEART.


14 posted on 12/13/2015 10:03:34 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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Guess you’re not from the South.


15 posted on 12/13/2015 10:07:27 PM PST by Calpublican (This statement incites violence against radical Islamism)
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To: EinNYC

Well by all means lets let more people into our country!


16 posted on 12/13/2015 10:18:53 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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17 posted on 12/13/2015 11:05:59 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: EinNYC
THE PLANET IS NOT GETTING WARMER! ARGHH!!!

Just because they keep saying it doesn't make it so!

18 posted on 12/13/2015 11:09:47 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: EinNYC

My dad, who lives in north central Texas, got the cutaneous form of leishmaniasis about ten years ago (a lesion on his wrist). They never did figure out how on earth he came in contact with the sandfly. The most likely guess was that some traveler brought it back accidentally. The dermatologist that my dad was referred to for this was so interested in the case (since they were even rarer at that time) that he asked my dad to come be an exhibit at a dermatologist’s convention!


19 posted on 12/13/2015 11:14:49 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert ("Cruz." That's the answer.)
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To: null and void
When the US was ramping up Desert Shield, the VA was all about this and other exotic diseases that we could catch over in the sand box. Leishmaniasis is well known to the medical community. It just isn't endemic here and largely unseen until the flood of migrants began to wash over our borders. Same for Chagas disease, which was in the news the other day, coming from Central America.
20 posted on 12/13/2015 11:20:37 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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