September 6, 2026 — 1:00pm
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At first, it looked like an innocuous insect bite on the top of Sarah Fowler’s foot.
The 52-year-old Brunswick woman noticed the small raised bump while staying with her parents on the Mornington Peninsula on New Year’s Day last year.
She went to a GP who prescribed her antibiotics. But the bump kept growing until it looked like a golf ball and her foot began to swell and ache.
Weeks later, a doctor at hospital emergency department diagnosed her with a flesh-eating Buruli ulcer.
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