Another five melioidosis deaths have been reported in northern Queensland over the past week bringing the state's death toll to 25 this year. The soil-borne disease is typically seen after heavy ...

The melioidosis outbreak has claimed two more lives in Cairns, as case numbers continue to grow alongside the wettest March in Far North Queensland’s history. There have been 77 cases of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...