Leishmaniasis — Iraq
When Z.’s family heard Islamic State ISIL forces had captured the nearby northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in the summer of 2014, they fled their home with just the clothes on their backs. Like tens of thousands of other members of an ethno-religious minority known as Yazidis, they set off on foot to seek refuge in the mountains not far away, their children in their arms and Z. pregnant with their 7th child. “ISIL saw us and shot at us, but we kept moving “Z. recalls, referring to the terrorist
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