Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. It is both preventable and treatable. Diarrhoea is also a leading cause of malnutrition in children under five years old. Diarrhoea is defined as the passage of three or more loose or liquid stools per day or more frequent passage than is normal for the individual. Frequent passing of formed stools is not diarrhoea…
The first description of skin lesions resembling those caused by Mycobacterium ulcer-ans, dates back to the late nineteenth century, when the missionary physician Albert Cook [1] recorded a range of chronic, necrotizing skin ulcers in patients in Uganda. In the 1950s and 1960s a larger case series of patients with similar ulcers was detected in today’s Nakasongola district in Uganda [2, …