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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Twelve people are dead after a record outbreak of a disease linked with heavy rain in a flood-hit region that is again on ...

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

Northern Australia is on alert for a rare and potentially fatal infectious disease, exacerbated by heavy rain and flooding. It has killed at least 12 people in North Queensland this year. While the ...