Melioidosis — Worldwide/Unknown
Scientists have recently found a fatal infectious bacterium in the soil of Kapasia in Gazipur for the 1st time in Bangladesh. Known as _Burkholderia pseudomalle_, this bacterium can cause melioidosis, a rare disease that leads to serious infections of lung, blood and other organs, doctors and scientists say. Since 2001, doctors of Ibrahim Medical College have detected 5 such patients, who are also diabetic. All these patients come from Mymensingh-Gazipur region, which led scientists to look
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