What makes melioidosis even more dangerous is its ability to remain dormant in the body for years, only to come up when a person's immune system weakens. This characteristic makes it a 'silent ...

What is melioidosis? Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei. ... Major €200 blow for thousands as Irish households face €800 payment CUT in days.

A deadly disease you’ve probably never heard of is much more prevalent in India, Brazil and other tropical developing countries than previously thought, according to a new study published in the ...

Melioidosis is a disease that strikes fear in those who've heard of it. Doctors in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia know it as a stubborn, potentially deadly infection that causes pneumonia ...

Melioidosis symptoms are wide-ranging and can vary depending on the type of infection. This means that the disease can be easily mistaken for other, more common illnesses, such as pneumonia ...

Health officials are looking for the common link between four mysterious cases — including two deaths — of melioidosis, a disease never before on contiguous US soil.

The bacteria that causes a rare, serious disease called melioidosis has been detected in water and soil samples in Mississippi, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

First thought to be glanders disease, the DOH later confirmed the cases to be melioidosis — a potentially lethal bacterial disease that can affect both humans and animals. But what is melioidosis?

CDC warns of three cases of melioidosis or Whitmore’s disease in Texas, Kansas and Minnesota with no travel history outside the U.S.

JACKSON, Miss. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that a deadly bacteria has been found in environmental samples on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The discovery of ...