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Health
Luke Costin

Dangerous flesh-eating bacteria detected in new state

Mosquitoes are a significant transmitter of a flesh-eating bacteria from animals to humans. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

The surprise discovery of flesh-eating ulcers hundreds of kilometres from existing case clusters has sparked concerns it has become entrenched in another state.

Buruli ulcer has been known to occur in Australia since the 1940s with cases noted in the Northern Territory and Queensland's far north.

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