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Article: ULCEROUS BOILS NEW HEALTH CONCERN FOR GIS\ RARELY FATAL, BUT CAN LAST FOR YEARS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2004
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Byline: Lisa Hoffman Scripps Howard News Service
As if U.S. troops in Iraq didn't have enough troubles, now there's the spreading scourge known as the "Baghdad boil."
At least 500 soldiers have contracted the tropical skin disease leishmaniasis, a sand-fly-borne malady that, while commonly not fatal, causes ulcerous boils that can linger for months and even years, according to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And, if research models on the infection rate prove correct, hundreds more GIs could come down with the festering sores that can reach three-inches in diameter and leave ...