Mycobacteria, non-TB — Worldwide/Unknown
Scientists have discovered a strain of bacteria in possum faeces with the potential to cause flesh-eating ulcers in humans.
Infectious disease researchers at Victoria’s Barwon Health [Australia] have found that the furry critters carry the buruli bacteria [_Mycobacterium ulcerans_] — a disease-carrying germ with the potential to cause ‘permanent disfigurement and disability’ in humans if they come in to contact with it.
In most cases the bacteria leaves people with major skin ulcers,
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