"Baghdad boil" a sore point in U.S.(Your Life)(infectious skin disease )(Brief article) From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: November 1, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Society for the Advancement of Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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 wh...