Monday, May 7, 2007

Disfiguring skin disease plagues Afghanistan

Disfiguring skin disease plagues Afghanistan - Yahoo! News

19 minutes ago

KABUL (Reuters) - The 10-year-old Afghan girl has big eyes, a shy smile and a dark lesion speckled with blood on her right cheek.

The girl has leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face.

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