CDC warns pet DOGS could start spreading new deadly flesh-eating parasite to humans in the US

“Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease carried by sand flies that, until now, had only been detected in the US among people returning from countries where it's endemic in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Dr Mary Kamb, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, told USA Today: 'This is a disease that we in the United States don't really think about. It's really a disease that belongs to other countries.'

Dr Kamb and her team have detected leishmaniasis in a number of tissue samples from patients who have not traveled outside the US.

The majority of the skin samples in the CDC study came from Texas”

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