{"id":8805,"date":"2025-02-26T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8805"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:47:51","slug":"soil-bacteria-outbreak-kills-14-in-australian-flood-hit-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/26\/soil-bacteria-outbreak-kills-14-in-australian-flood-hit-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil bacteria outbreak kills 14 in Australian flood-hit state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-02-soil-bacteria-outbreak-australian-state.html\">Medical Xpress<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melioidosis, a rare antibiotic-resistant disease caused by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bacteria\/\">bacteria<\/a>&nbsp;found in soil or mud, often surfaces in tropical areas after heavy rain or flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While cases have occurred in Queensland in previous years, the state&#8217;s Tropical Public Health Services director Jacqueline Murdoch said 2025 &#8220;absolutely is a record-breaking year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Certainly we haven&#8217;t seen anything like this,&#8221; she told national broadcaster ABC this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been 94 total infections in the state since the start of the year, Queensland Health data shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-02-soil-bacteria-outbreak-australian-state.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"  gQTRSLa nVS qn lf xdWPxPXKFi\"><!--   gQTRSLa nVS qn lf xdWPxPXKFi --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Xpress Melioidosis, a rare antibiotic-resistant disease caused by&nbsp;bacteria&nbsp;found in soil or mud, often surfaces in tropical areas after heavy rain or flooding. While cases have occurred in Queensland in previous years, the state&#8217;s Tropical Public Health Services director Jacqueline Murdoch said 2025 &#8220;absolutely is a record-breaking year.&#8221; &#8220;Certainly we haven&#8217;t seen anything like this,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8806,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions\/8806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}