Iraq’s Lepers
August 9, 2008
This is why Al Jazeera is a head and shoulder above all competitors in the mainstream. You will never see something like this on CNN or BBC. As far as they are concerned, the ‘surge’ is working and all’s hunky dory.
Untreated, it leaves sufferers with skin sores and weak muscles and can leave patients unable to walk. Leprosy, is a curable disease that’s been wiped out in most countries. But in Iraq – leprosy sufferers in the south are kept in appalling conditions, and receive little treatment.
Nicole Johnston has this report.
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[...] meanwhile the regular people are between a rock and a hard place. A horrifying example is this report from Al Jazeera on lepers in Iraq, neglected, ostracised with a disease that is easily treatable, freedom’s on the march… [...]