News 2019
January 2019
It was an unlucky scrape that Bob Creek knows could have cost him his life.
The 68-year-old was walking across a Darwin backyard one night in May last year, when he fell down a one-metre hole that...
February 2019
As Townsville residents continue to muddy, smelly clean up after last week's historic floods, a new and potentially deadly threat is lurking in the form of soil borne disease.
Eight people are in intensive care with...
Receding flood waters after Queensland’s once-in-a-century monsoonal deluge have left people exposed to a disease that…
A senior tropical disease researcher is warning that cases of the potentially lethal soil-borne infectious disease melioidosis will increase due to...
July 2019
The cause of the death of two children at Badiyadka here a few days ago is...
Augest 2019
Officials with the Chiba Prefectural Health and Welfare Department Disease Control Section reported (computer translated) this week on a melioidosis fatal case. The case is...
September 2019
HÀ NỘI Cases of Whitmore’s disease, also called melioidosis, has increased remarkably during the rainy season with...
October 2019
A groundbreaking study by a north Australian research team which identified a deadly bacterium responsible for killing saltwater crocodiles...
The Department of Health in the central province of Binh Dinh yesterday announced physicians of the General Hospital were successful in treating...
November 2019
Two brothers in Hanoi's Soc Son District died of melioidosis...