PRO/EDR> Leishmaniasis, tuberculosis - Syria

• Date: Dec 27 2012 Time: 00:15
• Description:
  Tuberculosis — Syria
  Inevitably, disease is spreading among people whose immune systems have been weakened by hunger, in a city [Aleppo] where sanitation has broken down. Tuberculosis is ravaging some neighborhoods, and there have been hundreds of cases of leishmaniasis, a skin disease transmitted by sand flies, which are multiplying amid the heaps of uncollected trash, said Saad Wafai, who serves on the crisis committee of the Aleppo council.
  At a small clinic in an abandoned shopping arcade -- set up by