Medical professionals call for urgent funding boost to research flesh eating ulcer

The rapid spread of a mysterious flesh-eating ulcer in Victoria has medicos calling for urgent research funding. Broadcast on the 17th of April, 2018.

Source: SBS

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More than 200 patients presented with tissue-destroying Buruli Ulcer last year - and to date - 2-Australians have required amputations.

Over the past few years, the overwhelming majority of diagnoses have been in Victoria - primarily on the Bellerine and Mornington Peninsulas.

In total, 107 cases were recorded in 2015, 182 in 2016 and last year 275 people presented with the condition.

An example of the flesh eating Buruli ulcer on the knee of an 11-year-old boy (AAP) Source: AAP