A woman who survived after contracting melioidosis is urging people to stay alert to the potentially deadly disease. North Queensland is experiencing an alarming spike in cases and fatalities from the ...

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

The number of deaths from a disease linked to heavy rainfall and flooding in northeast of Australia's state of Queensland has ...

The Cross River State Government has confirmed an outbreak of Lassa Fever in the Obubra local government area following the death ...

A soil-dwelling bacteria has killed 14 people in Australia's flood-hit state of Queensland, officials said, as health experts ...

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

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A boy, aged two years and seven months, in southeast Cambodia's Prey Veng province has died of H5N1 avian influenza, becoming ...

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

The death toll from melioidosis, a rare tropical disease linked to heavy rainfall and flooding, has surged to 12 in Queensland’s northeast, more than doubling from the five fatalities reported on ...

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