Two people have died from a deadly soil-borne bacteria with authorities reporting higher-than-average rates in 2025 following ...
Health officials are searching for answers as to why there’s been a sharp increase of a deadly disease in the Far North, ...
Two people have died from the soil-borne bacterial disease melioidosis in Far North Queensland during the region's ...
FAR North Queenslanders are being reminded to stay alert to symptoms of a dangerous seasonal disease, with cases of melioidosis taking a fatal toll. The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health ...
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Promising combo-drug treatment targets melioidosis while leaving gut microbiome bacteria unscathedMelioidosis—a bacterial infection that causes fever, pneumonia, and sepsis—presents two enormous challenges for infectious disease experts: It kills roughly half the people who contract it and ...
Kian Guerreiro contracted melioidosis from an open wound on his leg and spent two weeks in hospital. The bacteria that causes the disease lives in dirt and is common in sporting fields across ...
As clean up begins and some residents of North Queensland still remain deluged, communities are being reminded to stay alert ...
In addition, a case of Psuedomonas pseudomallei infection, melioidosis, was detected; this may be attributed to the fact that melioidosis is a common tropical infection in our setting.
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