Flesh-Eating Disease ?Spread By Isis? Is Now Infecting Other Countries

[super jumbe]

A horrific ?flesh eating? disease which has infected hundreds in Isis-controlled territories in Syria has now spread outside the country - sparking fears of an Ebola-style situation.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease which leads to lesions and severe scarring - often on people?s faces - and is spread by infected sand flies.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in Syria - it was once known as the ?Aleppo evil? - but it?s now spreading outside its area.

Peter Hotez, dean of the US National School of Tropical Medicine said, ??We?re seeing lots of diseases, including leishmaniasis in these conflict zones and we need to ring-fence them or risk another situation like Ebola out of the conflict zones in West Africa in 2014.?

'There are thousands of cases in the region but it is still underestimated because no one can count the exact number of people affected.

'When people are bitten by a sand-fly - which are tiny and smaller than a mosquito - it can take anything between two to six months to have the infection.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/flesh-eating-disease-spread-by-isis-is-now-090836769.html?nhp=1

[Meat-Head]

Thats great, but know a bloke called dennis, not sure if same fault, be he was
told could have come off a bus seat, door handle, karoke machine etc etc

he was repaured, but his body has more dink, chunkz & scrapes than all our sales cars put together

[GastonJ]

The flies now members of Isis? If they're going to make up headlines in attempt to discredit Isis then at least make them credible. To start with

Flesh-Eating Disease ?Spread By Isis? Is Now Infecting Other Countries

and in the middle have the truth

is spread by infected sand flies.

really does make it sound like a very lame attempt at propaganda. Isis are bad enough, do the news media really have to make it look like the sand flies have now joined Isis them? Perhaps the US and UK will now launch a "war on sand flies".

[super jumbe]

Flesh eating parasites need to eat some thing I tottaly agree with you GastonJ, the media never told us who is feeding isis 25000 in front line need 2 meals a day, money should have run dry by know, were is the chillden in need money spend….