Leishmaniasis, the disfiguring parasitic disease infecting a million around the world each year

Darwesh Khan's trouble began with just a little itching in his hands and what he believed was a pimple on his cheek. The labourer thought little of either until painful ulcers began to grow over his fingers making it difficult to move them. At the same time, another disfiguring lesion started to blossom and spread under his right eye. Fearing he would be unable to work if they got worse, he sought medical advice. But in his home of Charsadda district in Pakistan's northern east, that...