About Buruli Ulcer

What is the Buruli ulcer?

The mode of transmission of this microbe from the environment to the human being remains still unknown but it is thought that it would be transmitted by insects.
The Buruli ulcer presents various stages of evolution which appear by nodules, plates, oedemas, ulcerations, physical deformations, and cancers.
Any person of any age and any sex can be infected but the children are the most touched. Arms and legs are most frequently affected but no part of the body is spared.
The Buruli ulcer is treated by specific care and by surgery. The cure is often accompanied by invalidating handicaps.
It is thus very important to recognize and treat very early the disease in order to avoid serious complications.

Microbial tank

• Telluric hydro environmental tank
• Infestation of the ground due to the ecological upheavals starting from rains, floods, irrigations.

Way of transmission (assumptions)

• Direct inoculation through contact man-infected medium (traumatism or vector)
• Inoculation through the air and diffusion through the blood.