Leishmaniasis - Syria

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Leishmaniasis — Aleppo Governorate, Syria
News Reports out of Syria indicate the emergence of epidemic cutaneous leishmaniasis [CL] in the besieged city of Aleppo, adding further to the misery there.
Even in the best of times the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) has struggled with CL. We reported previously in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases that Old World or anthroponotic CL caused by _Leishmania tropica_ is endemic to Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.
In the ancient northern Syrian city of