PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis - Syria (02)

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Leishmaniasis — Syria
Approximately 100 000 people have been infected with the leishmaniasis parasitic disease in the past 2 years after civil war broke out in Syria, compared with before the conflict when the number of cases in Syria had been reduced to 3000-4000 as a result of joint efforts by Turkish and Syrian authorities.
The increase in the number of patients suffering from the disease is alarming not only for Syria but for Turkey as well, since leishmaniasis has also reached Turkey.
Opposition forces