A flesh-eating disease is sweeping across Syria, and ISIS is partly to blame

Tech Insider ^ | 12/4/2015 | Rebecca Harrington

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A disfiguring, flesh-eating disease is sweeping across Syria, and the US State Department says ISIS is to blame. The disease is Leishmaniasis, and it's spread by a parasite that's transmitted through the bite of an infected sandfly.

It can cause painful open sores that sometimes take months or even years to heal, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Syria has always been a hotspot for Leishmaniasis, but the civil war is likely accelerating the spread.

Poor sanitary conditions can increase the number of places for sandflies to breed, according to the World Health Organization. So ISIS' practice of dumping bodies in the streets could directly increase the risk for Leishmaniasis infection.

But the disease was already spreading through Syria as the health system collapsed after civil war broke out in 2011. Tens of thousands of doctors have since left the country, and by 2013, two out of five hospitals were not in service, according to an article in the BMJ.

By 2012, nearly 53,000 cases of cutaneous Leishmaniasis (the most common type) were reported in Syria, and that's the last official number available. The situation may be even worse now.

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REMAINS TO BE SEEN HOW MANY SYRIAN REFUGEES HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH IT:

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[albie]

Soooo....that’s coming here?

[Jonty30]

Or how many sandflies they might be bringing into America.

[Mears]

Good lord !!!!!

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[2banana]

The devil takes care of his own

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[Cicero]

Next thing we know, Obama will be planting it in our kiddies’ sand boxes. Part of his equal opportunity school program.

[Fungi]

Yes, thanks to the feckless fool on the hill.

[FlingWingFlyer]

You can bet the screening of Barry's Syrian refugees for this parasite has been very "robust."

sarc/

[dforest]

So lets all bring it to the USA. Woo Hoo

[Sasparilla]

ISIS is a soul eating disease.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Obama LOVED sending ebola patients here, too.

[dragnet2]

Obama needs to import hundreds of thousands here so they can treat them properly.

[metmom]

Awww. Poor kid......

[GOPJ]

A disfiguring, flesh-eating disease is sweeping across Syria, and the US State Department says ISIS is to blame. The disease is Leishmaniasis, and it's spread by a parasite that's transmitted through the bite of an infected sandfly. It can cause painful open sores that sometimes take months or even years to heal, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

One more reason democrats want to flood the country with Syrian 'refugees'... one more way democrats can damage American citizens.

[metmom]

Can they be transmitted by any other insect, like the mosquito?

[dead]

Saudi Arabia has 100,000 tents with air conditioning, used for only 5 days a year (during the Haj).

Vacancies in the tents 3,000,000
Syrian refugees housed there - 0
Nigerian refugees housed there - 0
Iraqi refugees housed there - 0
Any refugees housed there - 0

[dead]

I agree. That kid doesn’t deserve that. Islam is monstrous.

[Sola Veritas]

Leishmaniasis has been a problem for our soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan. One of its common names is the “Bagdad Boil.”

I do not believe there is any danger of it being spread here in the U.S.