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[i]Buruli ulcer is a skin disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium Ulcerans which emits toxins that destroy skin cells, small blood vessels and the fat under the skin, leading to ulcers forming and skin loss.

The ulcers get bigger with time and can lead to permanent disfigurement or disability, the disease believed to arise from the environment and soil usually affects limbs but can also be found on the face and body, some say mosquitoes can carry the bacteria./i] [BBC.com.

Flesh Eating Ulcer Spreading Rapidly in Australia.

[i]The first sign of infection is usually a painless lump on the skin often dismissed as an insect bite, the slow moving infection then burrows into a layer of fat located between the skin and the lining that covers muscles.

Spreading sideways and through the body destroying tissue along the way, before eventually erupting back through the skin in the form of an ulcer. Those with the infection often have no idea the infection has taken hold, until the ulcer appears when the pain can be extreme. /i] [Guardian.com.