Some interesting facts about me!

As you already know, I'm a parasite! Me and my other genus members all cause the disease Leishmaniasis. When the sand fly I'm in bites you, watch out! Now I'm inside you, and you've got Leishmaniasis! Leishmaniasis can infect most all mammals. When you get it, you'll get huge skin sores that pop up a couple weeks after you're infected. A few months down the road and you can get a fever, damaged spleen and liver, and anemia!

There are four different severities of Leishmaniasis:
- Cutaneous leishmaniasis: The most common form, which causes a sore at the bite site, which heals in a few months to a year, leaving a nasty scar. This form can turn into one of the worse forms though!
- Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis: This produces widespread skin lesions which resemble leprosy, and is really hard to treat!
- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis: First you get skin ulcers, which then spread, causing tissue damage, particularly to the nose and mouth!
- Visceral leishmaniasis: The most serious form! Potentially fatal if untreated! Good for me, but not so good for you!

So while I may not be very useful to you or very "important", I can be deadly, so watch out!

There are a few things that can stop me though. I don't like to be around antimony, Amphotericin B, or Miltefosine. They're like my Kryptonite!

Here's a few pictures of the disease I cause: