Once seen almost exclusively in returning travellers, cutaneous leishmaniasis is now being detected in the United States in people with no international travel history. Is climate change to blame?
Climate change is bringing diseases once considered tropical afflictions to the United States, and new research warns that a parasite spread by sand flies may be the latest to join this growing list.
A parasitic skin disease spread by sand flies that was once only linked to international travel is no longer considered an “imported” disease in the U.S.