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Article: "Baghdad boil" a sore point in U.S.(Your Life)(infectious skin disease )(Brief article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Nine new cases of an infectious skin disease common in the Middle East, Mexico, and South America, where it sometimes is referred to as a "Baghdad boil," have been identified in the U.S. by a team of dermapathologists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. Numerous cases of the disease, called leishmaniasis, have been reported in troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. For the first time, however, the infection is appearing in North Texas in patients who have not traveled to endemic areas.
The infection causes nonhealing sores that can be the size of a half-dollar or larger and that look like boils. These sores usually last for six to ...