An infectious flesh-eating ulcer caused by a bacteria is spreading so quickly through Australia that scientists in the state of Victoria are declaring this outbreak an epidemic. Normally abundant in West and central Africa and, the buruli ulcer is now taking hold in the “land down under.”
In a study published Monday in the Medical Journal of Australia, the authors caution that the outbreak of the ulcers, described as an “epidemic” in the study, requires an “urgent scientific response.” They report that Victoria is facing a worsening epidemic “defined by cases rapidly increasing in number, becoming more severe in nature, and occurring in new geographic areas.”
Buruli ulcer is caused by infection with the organism Mycobacterium ulcerans. It often affects the skin by deteriorating the tissue, but can go so deep it affects the bone structure. The organism belongs to the family of bacteria that causes tuberculosis and leprosy. However, M. ulcerans is an environmental bacterium and the mode of transmission to humans remains unknown. The organism produces a unique toxin – mycolactone – which causes tissue damage and inhibits the immune response.
According to numbers reported by CNN, in 2016, there were 182 new cases reported, a spike of 72%. But even this number was dwarfed by a further increase of 51% from November 2016 to the same month a year later. In November 2016, there were 156, which rose to 236 cases.
“In Australia, it seems more to be a terrestrial transmission whereas in Africa, for example, the strain is very different and is mostly transmitted through aquatic ecosystems,” said Andres Garchitorena, a researcher at the Institute of Research and Development in France and an expert on Buruli ulcers, who was not involved in the most recent report.
But the cases in Australia are becoming more severe and doctors also do not know the reason. “One possibility is maybe there’s some resistance to the antibiotics that they are using,” Garchitorena said. “It is difficult to prevent a disease when it is not known how infection is acquired,” wrote the lead author and associate professor Daniel O’Brien, an infectious diseases consultant.
Although some deaths from the infection have been reported, most cases are not life-threatening, according to Garchitorena. “There are cases where people have died, but the most common outcome when it’s not treated is a handicap: People may need an amputation or surgery with functional limitations for life,” he said. WHO also reports management of the buruli ulcer becomes more difficult when the patient is dealing with a coinfection of HIV, perhaps lending to the increased severity of the infections in Africa, although that’s largely speculation as still more in-depth studies of this disease are warranted.
The majority of cases are still being reported in West and Central Africa, including Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ghana. There are no predictable trends in the number of cases reported yearly either.
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Flesh-eating bacteria conquering Australia? Add this to the news that Australia is going to run out of oil in a little less than a couple of months. Plus a chlamydia outbreak is driving all the Koala Bears towards extinction. Wow man, the Koala Bears are going to die from an STD. And the fact that the Aussies sold their country to the China and we’re talking about some real sh*t going on in down under.
CARDIO MACHINES ARE A SCAM
10000 STEPS A DAY IS A SCAM
FITBIT IS A SCAM
DIETS ARE A SCAM
YOU KNOW WHAT ISNT A SCAM?????
STOP EATING SO FUCKING MANY CALORIES!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP GOING OUT TO EAT!!!!! PORTION SIZES ARE FUCKING 4X BIGGER NOW THAN IN 1960. STOP DUMPING A BUNCH OF CONDIMENTS AND TOPPINGS ON YOUR MEAL. COOK A SIMPLE DISH AND ENJOY EACH TASTE FOR WHAT IT IS. I SWEAR TO GOD 90% OF GETTING IN SHAPE IS PORTION CONTROL.
CARDIO IS FUCKING WORTHLESS. I SEE PEOPLE DOING CARDIO WORKOUTS FOR FUCKING YEARS AND THEY HAVE THE SAME SKINNY-FAT BODY THEY HAD WHEN THEY STARTED.
LIFTING HEAVY WEIGHTS WILL GIVE YOU HYPERTROPHIED MUSCLES. THE BIG MUSCLES WILL THEN BURN MORE CALORIES 24/7 AND REMOVE THE DISGUSTING FLAB. YOU HAVE TO LIFT HEAVY WEIGHTS AND CUT THE FUCKING PORTION SIZES IF YOU WANT A DECENT BODY.
IF YOU ARE A LARD ASS, THEN YOU ARENT A PREPPER!!!!
Flesh-eating bacteria conquering Australia? Add this to the news that Australia is going to run out of oil in a little less than a couple of months. Plus a chlamydia outbreak is driving all the Koala Bears towards extinction. Wow man, the Koala Bears are going to die from an STD. And the fact that the Aussies sold their country to the China and we’re talking about some real sh*t going on down under.
Wow, WTF is going on people? All the filthy, vile foreigners brining that mess to your country…great, good luck with that one.
People from Mexico and C. america are bringing in TB and spreading it. No telling what middle eastern folks are bringing in.
If they catch it early enough, the doctors can stop it using multiple antibiotics. If it is too far advanced, they may have to amputate. They’re not sure on all the ways it can spread, but they know that a puncture of the skin is the most probable way (insect bites). In Australia, they believe it entered in the eastern part of the continent and worked its way into the interior. Most American doctors (unless they practiced in Africa or Australia) have never seen the disease.
It is the part about uncontrolled immigration they don’t tell you about. Disease. In the past, people would go through thorough checks before ever leaving their country of origin, and then again when they arrived in the new country. Now, migrants are flown in unchecked because to check them would be a violation of their ‘rights’.
These migrants are coming from the most disease-affected parts of the world; places where there is no concept of hygiene as people know it in the West. People defecate anywhere, do not wash their hands, prepare filthy food with these hands. Ask flight attendants about this: they are the first Westeners to encounter this problem when these migrants board a flight. Stews will tell you about the bathroom habits that will turn your hair white.
These days they will just load a flight with filthy people and sit them right beside you. You will have no idea of the diseases they have been exposed to or are carrying. Coughing and spluttering all over your airline mini meal. Pawing your backseat TV screen. Pissing and crapping all over the aircraft tiny toilet.
Then, a few days later, they are walking the streets of your city. Munching on a Big Mac or strolling through WalMart. By that point, they could have spread whatever they have to thousands of people. And God help if they get a little horny and first head to a nightclub to pick up a lady and infect them with HIV. These are the realities of what is going on.
Clean wounds thoroughly and sprinkle on Arglaes silver powder before bandaging. Silver works on bacteria a number of entirely different ways, so they can’t build up an immunity. There are also pads infused with silver that will stop infections. I have used both, and I know they work.
Joke: Your mama’s so fat that, when the doctor diagnosed her with flesh-eating disease, he gave her 80 years to live.
I’m afraid to go to a hospital. They are contaminated. When you have surgery and are cut open, bacteria in the air can get into your body causing infection. The hospitals are overwhelmed so they send you home within hours. It is malpractice as usual.
I am afraid to use public restrooms.
I am afraid to eat out.
I am afraid of migrants’ diseases.
I am tired of being afraid.
I let this happen because I was afraid to be a racist.
I am tired of being afraid.
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B from CA: we eat at a mom and pop place (home style food) and avoid chains because of dietary restrictions (transfat, sodium), and inflated prices. Hospitals are scary places even outpatient surgeries are risky. Using public bathrooms are a lesser thing to worry about, yet try to avoid them. Migrants are spreading disease and gov. allows it (order out of chaos) just like rat hole Europe allows rapes and assaults and police do nothing. The plan is breakdown in law and order, already in progress. Folks this is vital: thecommonsenseshow.com video by Kathy Rubio and Paul Martin The anatomy of a coup, etc article today. Must hear!
It’s a shame about the Aussies and what’s happening to them. For the most part, they’re a good people. They’ve some idiotic laws in place with respect to firearms and the general liberal moron make-up now in power. Like here, they’ve let in some filthy savages and it’s rotting them inside out. I can only hope that both there and here we get our heads together and reverse the course we’re both on. If not, it’ll be socially unacceptable ones like those here that are eventually going to be doing the fighting.
Aussies could not care less… as long as the footy is on TV and the beer is flowing.
It is why our govt was so easily taken over and our constitution forgotten. The truth is the Aust Govt is illegal both under our constitution and International Law, but nobody cares… not the courts, not the pollies, not the people.
It is so bad I have be told IN COURT that I was guilty unless I proved myself innocent and to take up my ‘concerns’ with my local ‘representative’.
Our politicians have always been puppets and willing goy to the City of London.
There is a US patent for flesh eating bacteria, it was originally designed to eat oil, in oil spills, it is man made….. It’s gotten lose, it has evolved, it doesn’t know right from wrong.
MMS
In the illegal british (zionist) colony of Sick Africa even chickens are raised on a chemical diet. Only in the democratic zionist run countries where these viruses are spread to.
These illnesses are spread intentionally – sick people do not interfere with the zionists political agenda – just as this site protects racism to advance race assimilation and integration for the zionists to destroy the white race and to protect the fake religion which suppress reason which makes people dumb enough to go along with it.
Australia (amongst other countries) happily letting in these migrants, but balking at fast tracking visas for white south Africans (decent, hard working citizens) who are being killed off by the majority (blacks) at an alarming rate. It’s a slow genocide and even Genocide Watch has SA on it’s list, the SA government says it’s just crime. They stopped Australia from fast tracking visas for my people. They don’t want us here (want to kill us) but they don’t want to let us go either. WTF??
What a lot of CRAP. Flesh-eating bacteria conquering Australia. There have only been minimal cases of this as in other countries. I have close friend in medical profesion that laugh at this BS. Its a total outcry of lies from an other bullshit media artist. And if it { is true} how come hospitals around our country have NOT been put on FULL alert like the fake measles alert in the GOOD OLD USA. SEND me some proof, Links anything. For my friend Proffesor of surgery would like to be enlightened of what he calls TOTAL BULSHIT.