PRO/EDR> Leishmaniasis, tuberculosis - Syria

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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