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“Success is not final; Failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts!”

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965), British statesman, soldier, and writer, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Noma is a plague, especially in Afrika, affecting many children and difficult to treat.

It consists in skin wounds, disfiguring and disgraceful.

Disinfection and cleaning is main therapy applied.

Supposed etiology is thus malnutrition and microbial disease.

As with Atherosclerosis, deficit in Essential Fatty Acids can be supposed as the ground and cause, with bacterial and fungal superinfection in tropical climates as a trigger.

The Tropical Ulcer is an illness not unlike to this one.

In a similar way as in Burkitt’s Lymphoma, a virus could play a role.