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September 21 2017 - 9:28AM
Mysterious flesh-eating ulcer cases soar on Mornington Peninsula
Liam Mannix, Melissa Cunningham
WARNING: Graphic images
When Ella Crofts began feeling a dull ache in her right knee, the last thing she imagined was that a flesh-eating ulcer was chewing through her skin.
"I started feeling pain in my knee in early April," the 13-year-old said. "Slowly, it got worse as my knee became swollen and inflamed until one day the skin started breaking down and I started to see an open wound that just kept getting bigger and bigger."
Ella was an otherwise active and healthy teenager from Tyabb when she was struck down with mycobacterium ulcerans (otherwise known as Buruli ulcer) in April...
September 21 2017 - 9:28AM
Mysterious flesh-eating ulcer cases soar on Mornington Peninsula
Liam Mannix, Melissa Cunningham
WARNING: Graphic images
When Ella Crofts began feeling a dull ache in her right knee, the last thing she imagined was that a flesh-eating ulcer was chewing through her skin.
"I started feeling pain in my knee in early April," the 13-year-old said. "Slowly, it got worse as my knee became swollen and inflamed until one day the skin started breaking down and I started to see an open wound that just kept getting bigger and bigger."
Ella was an otherwise active and healthy teenager from Tyabb when she was struck down with mycobacterium ulcerans (otherwise known as Buruli ulcer) in April...
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