[Epidemiological situation of human carbuncle in Upper Volta (author's transl)]

After the statistical statement concerning human carbuncle in Upper Volta in 1976, 1977 and 1978, the authors report their clinical and epidemiological ascertainments observed during the opportunity of four surveys. Among the cutaneous forms, cephalic localization is the most frequently observed. Visceral forms are essentially digestive, sometimes respiratory, never neurological. In its voltaic foci (grounds made of clayey alluvium, regulatory flooded), carbuncle stretches to endemic-sporadic forms with epidemiological peaks. It does not exist any parallelism between the importance of breeding and human disease, which is much more frequent during the rainy season than during the dry one. Prophylactic measures are proposed: ruminant and hog vaccination in endemic areas, preceded by an information and education campaign for the health.