Melioidosis -- Australia
A 2nd person has died in the Northern Territory after contracting a tropical disease that thrives in monsoonal conditions. Melioidosis, which is caused by a bacterium that lies dormant in the soil for most of the year but surfaces during heavy rain, has been contracted by 28 people so far this wet season [2017]. It can lead to severe pneumonia and blood poisoning and has a mortality rate of up to 15 percent.
Melioidosis invades the body through cuts and sores, but it can also be inhaled if
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2kcqAc3
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