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Ben Fogle's flesh-eating disease returns

Presenter has treatment to fight bug he got in Peru

Ben Fogle rose to fame in the original series of Castaway in 2000

Ben Fogle is having chemotherapy because his flesh-eating disease has come back.

The presenter, 35, got leishmaniasis after he was bitten by a sandfly in Peru last summer.

'I am facing six weeks of chemotherapy and going to hospital for several hours a day to be put on drips to treat this condition,' he tells The Sun.

'I am really frustrated as I am normally so active.'

Ben trekked 500 miles to the South Pole with Olympic rower James Cracknell in December.

Holly Arnold