My Leishmaniasis Update (Amazon Parasite)

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📬 Join My Travel Newsletter ➙ https://newsletter.garethleonard.com ❤️ Day in the Life Ideas HELP ➙ https://www.garethleonard.com/the-list I wanna warn you - this might get a little emotional. It has been exactly one year to the date since I finished my second round of treatment for Leishmaniasis. In this video, I’m heading back to the NIH to see if I’m cured... The last time I came here they said I needed to start all over again, so I’m nervous. The second round of treatment rocked my body pretty good. If you haven’t seen part one of my Leishmania journey, this video won’t make any sense, so I hope you’ve seen that one first: https://youtu.be/gYpw_KoFAvw Leishmaniasis is a a disease caused by a rare flesh eating parasite that you get from the bite of an infected sandfly. Unforutunately, I ran into this sandfly at some point in my adventures with a local tribe in the Amazon Rainforest: https://youtu.be/OVne-d_7Z7E This is my journey back to the NIH to see if this travel nightmare is over! Also, when I returned back to San Diego from the NIH, there has been some interesting developments. Under the new Trump presidency, a wide range of restrictions and freezes have been issued across government agencies - one of them being the NIH. a halt on all meetings, hiring, travel, grant reviews, and communication to the public. The NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world - it invests more than $40 billion in research every year. With a significant portion going to cancer research - $7.3 billion. It is possible this is just a temporary pause on meetings to allow the new Trump team to get their bearings. The memo I read says the freeze end date is February 1. We will see how this plays out... ——— YOUTUBE: ① Travel Deeper Channel: https://bit.ly/TravelDeeperSubscribe ② Brand New Food Channel: https://bit.ly/GarethEatsSubscribe ③ Main Channel: https://bit.ly/you-da-best INSTAGRAM: ► https://instagram.com/traveldeeper ► https://instagram.com/garetheats TIKTOK: ► @Travel.Deeper ► @GarethEats WEBSITES: Merch ► https://traveldeeper.shop Personal ► https://www.garethleonard.com Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/GarethLeonard ——— WATCH ANOTHER TRAVEL SERIES ——— Croatia ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Croatia-Series Egypt ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Egypt-Series Russia ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Russia-Series Philippines ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Philippines-Series Japan ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Japan-Series Brazil ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Brazil-Series Australia ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Australia-Series USA ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-USA-Series Mexico ► https://bit.ly/Travel-Deeper-Mexico-Series ——— WHO IS GARETH LEONARD? ——— Hi! My name is Gareth Leonard, an American Travel YouTuber with a passion for slow, meaningful solo travel. I have spent the past 14+ years traveling around the world while creating travel vlogs to help educate and inspire people to “Travel Deeper.” If you enjoy my work, please subscribe to this channel and turn on the notifications bell to stay up-to-date with my travel deeper adventures. Daily updates can also be found on my IG Stories (@traveldeeper), so if you’ve read this far, send me a DM with the “🦊” emoji so I know you’re a real one! Thanks for following along! 🙏 00:00 Doctors Office 00:28 Leishmaniasis Intro 2:01 Journey to NIH 2:43 A Special Email 7:20 Entering the NIH 8:07 NIH Appointments 8:55 Wound Comparison 9:54 The Verdict 15:56 Calling Mom 18:30 Trump Updates 20:58 What's Next? #garethleonard #traveldeeper #nih #trump #leishmania #leishmaniasis #healthcare #health #hospital #healthandwellness