There's been a surge of melioidosis cases this year. Here's everything you need to know about the disease, what's causing it ...

The number of deaths from the soil-borne infection is at an all-time high in northern Queensland, and a survivor says people ...

Queensland, Australia, is experiencing a deadly outbreak of melioidosis, a rare antibiotic-resistant disease caused by ...

The heavy rain and flooding that caused so much damage in north Queensland has now cleared, but in its wake stirs a deadly ...

A woman who survived after contracting melioidosis is urging people to stay alert to the potentially deadly disease. North ...

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

Health authorities in the tropical north coast region of Queensland confirmed on Tuesday that the death toll from melioidosis ...

A rare soil-borne disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in northern Queensland, amid a surge in cases since the start of ...

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.

Queensland, in northeastern Australia, experienced heavy flooding after storms dumped more than 1.5 metres (59 inches) of ...

The deaths of 12 people in north Queensland in a “record breaking” outbreak of a rare bacterial disease has medical ...

Nine people have died from a bacteria-borne disease since the start of the year in what health authorities have described as ...