A “potentially disfiguring” skin disease that once used to be found almost exclusively among international travelers returning to the United States has now been identified among Americans with no travel history, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease spread through the bite of sand flies. In the United States, the disease used to be detected among travelers from the tropics, subtropics, and southern Europe. But a recent study by scientists at the CDC has found infections among Americans who have not left the country, according to an Oct. 19 press release by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).
