If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

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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As the clean-up begins in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred, health experts have issued a warning to residents about the deadly melioidosis bacteria, which is found in mud and water and comes to ...

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 ...

“While the risks of melioidosis should reduce as conditions dry up across the region, it’s still important to take precautions and be alert, especially for those who are most at risk,” Dr ...

The rare but deadly soil-borne disease Melioidosis has claimed five more lives in far north Queensland; Three Chinese warships that recently completed live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea have re ...

A woman who survived after contracting melioidosis is urging people to stay alert to the potentially deadly disease. North Queensland is experiencing an alarming spike in cases and fatalities from ...