Melioidosis is a bacterial infection that lives in the soil, usually in areas above the Tropic of Capricorn, but it has been seen recently at latitudes much farther south. Those cleaning up the ...

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Another melioidosis death has been recorded in the Townsville area. The death toll in Queensland has risen to 16 amid the unprecedented increase in infections. A health expert in Cairns says the ...

In Queensland, around 0.6 per 100,000 people contract melioidosis annually, but the disease is considered endemic to other parts of northern Australia too. There have been 28 reported cases in the ...