This flesh-eating parasite called "the next plague" could soon spread in the U.S., spurring...

The picture attached to the article says it's from 2002. This isn't a new thing. It would already be a big problem if it was going to be. Whoever wrote the article is using it to drum up climate change related hysteria.

OMG, the world is coming to the end! (What is wrong with journalist today?)

Anybody on RP that used to instruct at the JOTC (Jungle Operations Training Center) Fort Sherman, Canal Zone (Panama)? How long has this subject been on the POI before the school closed?
I know that this was covered at JOTC when I attended in 1977.

Color me surprised, but I think that other kinds of briefings have taken over for critical health briefings and training and then of course the dread of today's troops using DEET to protect themselves (usually not trained properly in its use).


https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5242a1.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873258/
Sanchez JL, Diniega BM, Small JW, Miller RN, Andujar JM, et al. (1992) Epidemiologic investigation of an outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a defined geographic focus of transmission. Am J Trop Med Hyg 47: 47–54 [PubMed]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7548499/