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Travelling abroad to volunteer for wildlife conservation is often an exciting and fulfilling experience. However, for Georgia Podmore, a trip to Costa Rica turned into a long and distressing health battle after she contracted leishmaniasis from sand fly bites.

Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne infection ranked by the World Health Organization as second most important protozoan parasitic disease after malaria for its morbidity, mortality and global distribution.

Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis is a sand fly-borne disease caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania infantum and is widely distributed in temperate and subtropical countries of both the Old and New Worlds

Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis is a sand fly-borne disease caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania infantum and is widely distributed in temperate and subtropical countries of both the Old and New Worlds