Doctors on high alert as melioidosis death toll rises to 20 in Queensland

Doctors on high alert as melioidosis death toll rises to 20 in Queensland

Source: ABC News

Health authorities are on high alert after another melioidosis death in North Queensland amid fears the disease is occurring in places where it was previously all but unheard of.

Queensland's unprecedented melioidosis outbreak has claimed another life, taking the death toll to 20.
An elderly man died in the Townsville health district on the weekend, the eighth death in the area since the start of the wet season on November 1…. [2959 chars]

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