What you need to know about the flesh-eating infection spreading across NSW's south coast

What you need to know about the flesh-eating infection spreading across NSW's south coast

Dr Ian Marr from the Canberra Hospital’s Infectious Disease Unit has done a lot of work on the Buruli ulcer, Photo: James Coleman. Work is continuing to determine why there’s been a spike in cases of flesh-eating, mosquito-borne infection across Australia’s southeast. The bad news? Researchers are still baffled. However, we met up with Canberra Hospital’s infectious disease unit director and clinical microbiologist, Dr Ian Marr, to find out what…