PRO/EDR> Buruli ulcer - Australia: (VI) M. ulcerans, increasing incidence

Mycobacteria, non-TB -- Australia
A flesh-eating disease [_Mycobacterium ulcerans_] common in 3rd world countries is infecting parts of Victoria [Australia] at increasingly epidemic rates, and doctors have no idea why.
_Mycobacterium ulcerans_, an infection which eats away at the limbs like gangrene, has more than doubled in Victoria in the last year, with 240 new cases. In the past few months, 9 people have been diagnosed with it each week.
The disease, also known as the Bairnsdale ulcer, is strangely migrating from the

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