Posted on 12/13/2015 6:54:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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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Possibly, but sandflies could end up just like bedbugs. Hard to stop and control and very nearly everywhere.
Perhaps the germ warfare has gotten out of control
Because?????
According to the Whitehouse the best cure for this is the prompt delivery of c-17 loads of TOW missals to ISIS.
I thought for a second there that this was about willy pete.
Nossir. Obama just delivered a speech, and he specifically ruled this out. According to him, the best way to fight this disease is to bring 1,000,000 Syrian 'refugees' into America, with emphasis on those who have the disease. They are to be located in major population centers.
Ping...
It is caused by climate change.
“Because?????”
We have had many soldier infected return to this country. It is NOT contagious and requires transmission by the sand fly which does not exist/live in our climate.
This disease is nothing new. It is only a problem when we are operating in that part of the world.
We have been operating in that part of the world long before 9-11, but also after over 10 years of intensive military operations with thousands of military personnel being there, it has NOT spread here. The Sand Fly cannot live here.
This NOTHING to be worried about. Don’t extrapolate from a problem in that region due to inadequate medical treatment because of ISIL driving off physicians to it spreading to this country. There are plenty of real concerns. Stick with them.
Reading (this is from memory 30-years ago) the Official US Army Medical Books that chronicled WWII, there was reports of a sand borne disease that was never officially diagnosed, probably due the short length of the African campaign. The British had found out about something similar in their military medical journals beginning in 1870’s, but they too basically put up with it and did not spend time in the areas once it was encountered.
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