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 ...

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

Another four people have died due to a dangerous bacterial disease plaguing far north Queensland, bringing the total number ...

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

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

Three people have died from melioidosis in the Townsville area which follows four deaths from the disease in the Cairns ...

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

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

An elderly person has died from the serious infectious disease, melioidosis, that can be contracted from contaminated water, ...

A Far North public health service says four people have died from melioidosis since New Year's Day and an investigation is ...