Melioidosis -- Australia
More people are being infected by a potentially fatal bacterium in the Northern Territory [NT], and health experts suspect building works could have something to do with the rise in cases. It infects a person through open cuts and wounds, and it can be inhaled.
One man breathed in the bacterium in December 2016, while he was living behind a block of flats in Darwin [Northern Territory] that were being demolished. "There was a lot of dust coming over the fences, onto the car. They say I got
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