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No one knows how many people have mycetoma worldwide, however in a village in central Sudan, a man lists 12 people who have had their legs amputated because of the flesh-eating infection

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First Step for a Dreadful Disease: Get on the List

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Neglected Diseases

Q&A with Amy Maxmen: An Unjust Problem

Neglected Diseases

Mycetoma: The Untold Global Health Story of 2015

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Neglected Diseases

A Flesh-eating Fungus Wrecks Lives and No One Cares