NewsDesk @bactiman63 A Buruli ulcer epidemic was declared in the health zone of Bogose Nubea more than 40 kilometers from the town of Gemena, capital of Sud-Ubangi in the North-West of the Democratic...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Victoria Department of Health in southern Australia in a health advisory earlier this month is reporting cases  of Buruli ulcer are increasing. There have been  266 cases notified...

Buruli ulcer is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) resulting in debilitating skin lesions, disabilities and stigmatization. The current antibiotic treatment is long and has severe adverse side effects....

Health officials in Victoria are reporting a steady increase in notifications of Buruli ulcer since 2015 in people who have travelled to or live in endemic areas, prompting an advisory for health care...

An unknown disease that has afflicted some 2,000 people on the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe remains a mystery as Portuguese doctors try to figure out the etiology and cure, according...

Buruli ulcer, one of the neglected tropical diseases, has in recent years been spreading greatly, particularly in western Africa. What organism causes Buruli ulcer? Buruli ulcer is a bacterial infection...

Bong County, which borders Guinea to the northeast, is one district in Ebola-stricken Liberia where new Ebola cases are being reported in significant numbers outside Monrovia, according to World Health...

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The accurate diagnosis of Buruli ulcer – one of the most devastating and debilitating neglected tropical diseases – may become common practice in a near future. Researchers at Harvard University...