Question

You have gone on a mission trip to Ghana in West Africa to help build a new wing on a village clinic. While you're working, you notice that the phy sicians at the clinic are treating a lot of people with a mysterious illness th no one has seen before. One physician mentioned that he thought it mic be Buruli ulcer disease, which is caused by a bacterium and was last seei Chana in the 1980s. What kind of disease might this be?

Answer 1

The disease that the physicians might be treating could be Buruli ulcer disease, which is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium ulcerans.