Earth & Environment - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:21 - 2 Comments

In the tropics, outbreak and changing landscape

A team of researchers in Ghana, West Africa, is trying to determine if environmental changes are related to outbreaks of one of the most neglected but treatable diseases in the tropical world. (Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons/http://commons.wikimedia.org)

PENN STATE (US)—An international team of researchers is in Ghana as part of a five-year effort to investigate how changes in the environment affect a deforming tropical disease called Buruli ulcer. Continue…