Cheap fungal nail infection drug found to work on crippling flesh-eating disease

‘Momentous’ breakthrough in treating neglected tropical disease as trial finds fosravuconazole to be highly effective for mycetoma

A cheap and easily taken drug used to treat fungal nail infections has been found to be highly effective against a devastating flesh and bone-eating disease found across Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Researchers say the breakthrough offers hope to thousands of patients who have suffered decades of neglect and can face amputations if the disease is left untreated.