A deadly flesh-eating disease is sweeping Syria – caused by ISIS dumping bodies in the street. The bug, known as Leishmaniasis, is caused by protozoan parasites and usually carried by flies, metro.co.uk reports.
More than 500 people were affected by mid 2014, but it that number is believed to have dramatically risen.
Dilqash Isa, head of the Kurdish Red Crescent, said: ‘As a result of abominable acts by ISIS that included the killing of innocent people and dumping their corpses in streets, this is the leading factor behind the rapid spread of Leishmanisis disease.’
The World Health Organization has warned that Syria’s health system has collapsed under five years of war.
‘We did not have knowledge about this deadly disease before,’ a Syrian Kurdish fighter told news agencies. ‘We have been fighting on the battlefield for almost four years and this disease basically generated from embattled areas of Tal Hamis, Hon and Qosa,’ Metro UK
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