Find out what you need to know about a Buruli ulcer, including what a diagnosis means and treatment options.

After confounding scientists for more than 80 years, researchers have finally discovered how the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer is transmitted: mosquitoes. The discovery means practical measures can ...

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

As Buruli ulcer cases have risen, they have taken a physical and psychological toll but also offered hope that scientists can solve the bacteria’s many mysteries.

Buruli ulcer is a tropical disease caused by the environmental bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans. The bacteria releases toxins that can destroy skin, blood vessels and subcutaneous tissue ...

Flesh-eating bacteria cases rise in Australia as new warnings issued over ‘painless symptom’ The disease takes the appearance of a lump which then becomes a destructive ulcer ...

Researchers find strong evidence suggesting mosquitoes may transmit Mycobacterium ulcerans, the bacteria causing Buruli ulcers, but caution that further study is needed.

Researchers say they have confirmed a theory that a flesh-eating bacteria that affected hundreds of Australians last year is being spread from infected possums to humans by mosquito bites.

In Australia, a flesh-eating bacteria that is believed to have been transmitted from possums and mosquitoes is spreading fast across the state of Victoria with health experts warning that ...

A woman's trip to visit her daughter in Melbourne has taken a dark turn after mysteriously contracting a horrifying flesh-eating disease.

Buruli ulcer was not transmitted from person to person, but a new study found increasing evidence mosquitoes and possums played a role in people becoming infected in Victoria, Dr Looker said.

Buruli Ulcer (BU) is a neglected, debilitating skin disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans. After the first definite description in 1948, M. ulcerans infections have been reported ...