sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
[h=1]The Little-Known, Disfiguring Disease That?s Coming Our Way[/h] by Maryn McKenna
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In 2012, researchers at theTexas and Oklahoma health departments reported in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that they had uncovered 13 cases of leishmaniasis over eight years, 2000 to 2007, compared to 29 over almost a century: 1903 to 1996. The people who had the disease had not traveled out of the local area; their cases were what public health calls ?autochthonous,? which means ?contracted where reported,? or not carried in from somewhere else. The researchers added that several of the 13 had been misdiagnosed at first?so it was likely there were other cases that had not been found.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/19/leishmaniasis-tx/
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In 2012, researchers at theTexas and Oklahoma health departments reported in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that they had uncovered 13 cases of leishmaniasis over eight years, 2000 to 2007, compared to 29 over almost a century: 1903 to 1996. The people who had the disease had not traveled out of the local area; their cases were what public health calls ?autochthonous,? which means ?contracted where reported,? or not carried in from somewhere else. The researchers added that several of the 13 had been misdiagnosed at first?so it was likely there were other cases that had not been found.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/19/leishmaniasis-tx/