Published Date: 2005-03-26 23:50:00
Subject: PRO/EDR> Melioidosis, fatal - Australia (QLD)(02)
Archive Number: 20050326.0873
MELIOIDOSIS, FATAL - AUSTRALIA (QUEENSLAND) (02)
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005
From: Jeffrey Hanna <Jeffrey_Hanna@health.qld.gov.au>
The wet season in north Queensland has usually started by Christmas,
so we start seeing cases of melioidosis from January. So far in 2005,
there have been 10 cases of melioidosis in the region (population
approx. 597 000). From 2000, the number of cases in the region with
an onset in the 1st quarter of the year has ranged from a minimum of
3 to a maximum of 14, so this year is (so far) a very "average" year.
Of note however, only 3 cases this year have been in Indigenous
(i.e., Aboriginal) people. As mentioned in the posting, there have
been 3 deaths this year, but one of these was a very elderly person,
and the other had a terminal malignancy. The out-of-state visitor (a
diabetic) was hospitalized in north Queensland; there was no delay in
implementing appropriate treatment. She died from an overwhelming
melioidosis pneumonia/septicemia on the 2nd day after being
hospitalized.
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Dr Jeffrey Hanna
Tropical Public Health Unit
Cairns, QLD, Australia
<jeffrey_hanna@health.qld.gov.au>
[ProMED thanks Dr. Hanna for this information regarding the
melioidosis cases. - Mod.LL]
See Also
Melioidosis, fatal - Australia (QLD) 20050324.0851Melioidosis, tsunami-related (04): Finland 20050307.0679
Melioidosis - Australia (NT) 20050116.0131
2004
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Melioidosis - Singapore (04) 20040917.2578
Undiagnosed illness - Taiwan (03): meliodosis 20040804.2133
Melioidosis - Singapore 20040409.0968
Melioidosis - Australia (NT) (02) 20040322.0797
Melioidosis - Australia (NT) 20040319.0770
Melioidosis - Australia (North Qld.) 20040308.0654
2003
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Melioidosis - Australia (Northern Territory) 20031217.3084
Melioidosis - Brazil (Ceara) 20030314.0632
2002
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Melioidosis - Australia (Queensland) 20020313.3732
1999
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Melioidosis, human - Singapore 1998 (02) 19990330.0512
Melioidosis, human - Singapore 1998 19990330.0507
1998
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Melioidosis - UK ex Indian subcontinent 19980905.1780
Melioidosis, fatal - Western Australia (02) 19980109.0061
Melioidosis, fatal - Western Australia 19980109.0060
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