"We are thankful to both the FDA for creating the TDPRV Program to drive development of drugs to benefit patients suffering from serious but often neglected tropical diseases, and to Streeterville ...

Melioidosis is a rare tropical disease caused by bacteria commonly found in soil and water in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. After heavy rainfall it becomes airborne. Queensland's tropical ...

A 'loving mum' and a 'great nan' are among those who have been remembered in this week's funeral notices serving the Devon ...

As water levels recede, doctors warn a new danger could be lurking. Melioidosis is a rare tropical soil-borne disease that can emerge after periods of heavy rain and flooding. There has been an ...

Pastoral stations in WA's north-west have been hit hard and people are being evacuated from remote communities as ex-tropical cyclone ... populated area of De Grey, where the cyclone made landfall ...

Tropical Cyclone Zelia brought heavy rain and ... A major flood peak was observed along the De Grey River at Coolenar Pool, east of Port Hedland, early on Sunday morning. The river level was ...

Increased levels of the disease are typically recorded after tropical storms and extreme weather. Health officials were investigating whether the spike was linked to last summer's flooding across ...

The slow-moving tropical storm, named Alfred, is on track to bring dangerous winds and flooding along the coast of Queensland and New South Wales, including Brisbane. By Victoria Kim Reporting ...

A rare tropical cyclone veered towards Australia's densely populated eastern coast on Wednesday, sparking emergency warnings, closing hundreds of schools, and threatening to flood thousands of homes.

While many of those who carry the mutation develop severe lung hemorrhaging as children others never get the disease at all. Now, Shum and a team of collaborators have found a variation in a ...