Tag: cancrum oris

Noma (cancrum oris) is an acute and ravaging gangrenous infection affecting the face. The victims of Noma are mainly children under the age of 6, caught in a vicious circle of extreme poverty and chronic malnutrition.

Noma, this rapidly progressing disease of the mucous membranes of the mouth and then bone is most common in malnourished and/or Immunosuppressed children in the poorest countries of Africa.