As the clean-up begins in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred, health experts have issued a warning to residents about the deadly melioidosis bacteria, which is found in mud and water and comes to ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Illness. Followed categories will be added to My News. As the clean-up begins in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred, health experts have issued a warning to ...

About 10 per cent of those who contract the disease will die, Townsville Public Health Unit director Steven Donohue told the ABC. Symptoms are flu-like, such as headache and fever, chest pain ...

Medical experts have warned residents of a deadly disease lurking in floodwaters and the air that has already claimed almost 20 lives. As the clean-up begins in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred ...