One way to measure the horrific suffering of #Syria’s increasingly violent war is through the experience of Syrian children. More than one million children are now #refugees. At least 11,500 have been killed because of the armed conflict, and roughly 1,500 have been executed, shot by snipers or tortured to death. At least 128 were killed in the #chemical massacre in August. In the midst of all this violence, it is easy to miss the health #catastrophe that has also struck Syrian children. Syria has become a cauldron of once-rare infectious #diseases, with hundreds of cases of #measles each month and outbreaks of #typhoid, hepatitis, and dysentery. #Tuberculosis, #diphtheria, and #whoopingcough are all on the rise. Upward of 100,000 children are stigmatized by #leishmaniasis, a hideous parasitic skin disease that flourishes in war.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:19:53 +0000
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