Melioidosis -- Thailand
People living in flooded areas have been warned to keep time spent wading through water to a minimum lest they be infected with melioidosis, a disease that has claimed 21 lives in 2017. Department of Disease Control (DDC) chief Dr Jessada Chokdamrongsuk reported on [Mon 28 Aug 2017], that 1978 cases of melioidosis had been reported from [1 Jan 2017] to [22 Aug 2017].
The disease, caused by the bacterium _Burkholderia pseudomallei_ and prevalent during the rainy season in the subtropics,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2vlXNYn
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