WITH WAFAC-AFRICA NGO,HOPE IS STILL POSSIBLE...
In these periods of rain, Wafac-Africa initiates a public awareness campaign in order to inform the populations on the need for having adequate behaviors in the endemic zones. Thus, the villages of the departments below were identified.
About Buruli Ulcer
Buruli Ulcer is the man most current mycobacterial infection after tuberculosis and leprosy. Buruli Ulcer is a disease caused by a microbe called “Mycobacterium ulcerans” which affects the skin but also can sometimes touch the bones. It is very widespread in the world (30 countries) in the equatorial wetlands and more often close to the sheets of water. The mode of transmission of this microbe from the environment to the man remains still unknown but it is thought that it would be transmitted by insects. Buruli Ulcer presents various stages of evolution which appears by nodules, plates, oedemas, ulcerations, physical deformations, cancers. Any person of any age and any sex can be touched but the children are the most affected. The arms and the legs are most frequently reached but Buruli Ulcer does not spare any part of the body. It is treated by specific care and the surgery. The cure is often accompanied by invalidating handicaps. It is thus very important to recognize and treat very early the disease in order to avoid serious complications.
Microbial tank
- Hydro telluric environmental tank
- Infestation of the ground due to the ecological upheavals starting from rains, floods, irrigations.
- Direct inoculation by contact man- infecting mediums (traumatism or vector)
- Inoculation by aerogene way and diffusion by hematogen way.
