Migrant crisis means FLESH-EATING disease found in ISIS strongholds has spread to EUROPE
A FLESH-EATING tropical disease spreading across the Middle East because of the devastating impact Islamic State (ISIS) is having on the region could already have reached European shores, experts have warned.
By PATRICK CHRISTYS
Express.co.uk
Sun, May 29, 2016
Experts are comparing it to Ebola and warn it could rip-through Europe as the putrid conditions many of the overcrowded refugee camps make it fertile breeding ground for the parasitic infection to spread.
The horrific disease, which often attacks the face, is becoming rife in ISIS strongholds because the twisted terrorists are leaving bodies to rot in the streets and destroying medical facilities capable of treating it.
Cutaneous leishmaniasis, spread by infected sand flies, was a rare condition until ISIS seized control of swathes of Syria, killing thousands of health workers.
The disgusting conditions in jihadi-held cities such as Raqqa, Deir al-Zour and Hasakah made it easy for the disease, which causes the skin to change colour and leaves severe scarring, to spread.
But, because more than four million civilians have fled Syria, the sickness is rampaging across the region, with hundreds of cases now being reported in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
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