You were very brave to talk to the reporter Valerie. I had been following that article all this time and just now noticed it was you.
About the leishmaniasis, Valerie or anyone, weirdly just before this whole thing started I spent a month living in a small hotel room with 2 people who had parasites - one of them having just barely survived L, and still covered in scars. While I was with them I got drastically sick with a high fever etc. It's a weird coincidence that this happened at the same time.
I know that neither of them are sick in any way. They both have strong immune systems though, and I have had CFS, etc off and on.
Also, strangely enough, I KNOW I was also exposed to several other things when all this started including cotton clothes I had been buying that were filled with "threads" which I later realized were part of this disease.
It's almost like a bad RPG (role playing game) video adventure.
Maybe when it's "game over" it will turn out that's all it was.