Opinion: Ten years after WHO recognition, mycetoma remains one of the world’s most neglected diseases

When I met Tesfaye at Boru Meda General Hospital, he vaguely remembered the thorn. He was 15 when it pricked his foot, out in the fields somewhere in Mekdela, in north-central Ethiopia. He had noticed it in passing, then forgot about it.

Seventeen years later, that prick had severely damaged his foot, destroying its bones.Read the rest…