Health authorities are on high alert after another melioidosis death in North Queensland amid fears the disease is occurring ...

Seven people have now died from melioidosis in flood-ravaged north Queensland this year. Dozens of cases have been reported ...

Another person has died from melioidosis, bringing the tally to six deaths since flooding rains started in January.

Army veteran Mathew Whitbread, 49, was fit and healthy when he contracted melioidosis while mud crabbing in north Queensland.

Melioidosis is a bacterial infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, and is primarily acquired by inoculation, inhalation and/or ingestion of soil- and water-dwelling environmental ...

Another four people have died due to a dangerous bacterial disease plaguing far north Queensland, bringing the total number ...

After an 'unprecedented' surge in cases this year, those in flood affected areas are being urged to protect against 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 ...

Three elderly people have died from melioidosis in the Townsville area, which follows four deaths from the disease this year in the Cairns region. Three locally acquired cases of dengue fever have ...

Seven people have now died from melioidosis in flood-ravaged north Queensland this year. Dozens of cases have been reported in the state in recent weeks, which experts have described as unprecedented.

Seven people have now died from melioidosis in flood-ravaged north Queensland this year. Dozens of cases have been reported in the state in recent weeks, which experts have described as unprecedented.