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13 people contracts ‘rare skin disease’ after eating ‘shora’

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HEART CITY (Pajhwok): Local health officials in Badghis and Herat provinces on Wednesday said 13 people have contracted ‘a rare skin disease” after eating a type of vegetable.

Dr. Bashir Ahmad Barakzai, skin specialist in the Herat Zonal Hospital, told a press conference in Herat City, the provincial capital, that the affected individuals were brought to the hospital during the past 15 days.

The patients included eight women and three children from northern Badghis province and another two persons . . .

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