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Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University

There’s an outbreak of melioidosis in north Queensland. Here’s what to know about this deadly ‘mud bug’

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Seven people have now died from melioidosis in flood-ravaged north Queensland this year.

Dozens of cases have been reported in the state in recent weeks, which experts have described as unprecedented.

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