INFECTIONS caused by sandfly bites are extremely rare with just a few cases in the UK every year, a health expert said last night.
Dr Nick Beeching, consultant in infectious diseases at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, warned holidaymakers not to panic. There are several forms of the disease, which can affect different organs.
Visceral Leischmaniasis, the variety contracted by Peter Farnworth, causes infection in many parts of the body.
Dr Beeching said: "Symptoms include problems swallowing and sufferers can get anaemic, become very tired, have a cough and diarrhoea.
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