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Warning as patient dies of infectious disease melioidosis in Australia’s wet northern regions

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Another person has died of a deadly disease linked to exposure with contaminated floodwaters.

Melioidosis is caused by an infection from the soil-dwelling bacteria burkholderia pseudomallei — and cases have spiked amid the floods and heavy rainfall in Australia’s north this year.

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