Disfiguring tropical bug spread across Syria after ISIS turn the streets into a filthy wasteland is now eating its way across the Middle East

 

 

• Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a disease spread by bites from sand flies
• Can lead to severe scarring and regularly goes undiagnosed and untreated
• The disease had been contained to Syria, particularly ISIS-held regions
• But it has now spread as millions have fled to neighbouring countries
• See more news on the tropical bug spreading across Syria 

By Thomas Burrows for MailOnline

Published: 20:36 GMT, 28 May 2016 | Updated: 07:10 GMT, 31 May 2016

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