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Parasitic disease outbreak in Samaria: Finance must wake up
Dozens of residents ill, shortage of millions of shekels to protect settlements. Council head: Budget doesn't cover quarter of need.
Mordechai Sones, 04/07/18 00:13
The Shomron Regional Council is struggling to obtain the necessary budget to treat leishmania (protozoan parasite called "Jericho Rose") after dozens of council residents fell ill, and due to a shortage of millions of shekels for protecting the settlements.
As of this moment there are 50 patients with leishmania in Samaria, most of them children. The leishmania is transmitted by the sand fly, whose carrier is the rock rabbit that dwells in rocks in rural areas...
Parasitic disease outbreak in Samaria: Finance must wake up
Dozens of residents ill, shortage of millions of shekels to protect settlements. Council head: Budget doesn't cover quarter of need.
Mordechai Sones, 04/07/18 00:13
The Shomron Regional Council is struggling to obtain the necessary budget to treat leishmania (protozoan parasite called "Jericho Rose") after dozens of council residents fell ill, and due to a shortage of millions of shekels for protecting the settlements.
As of this moment there are 50 patients with leishmania in Samaria, most of them children. The leishmania is transmitted by the sand fly, whose carrier is the rock rabbit that dwells in rocks in rural areas...