Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed four more melioidosis cases late last week in people ‘who developed symptoms during the period from mid-August to early November’, however it also said the reporting of new infections has eased this month. There have been 42 melioidosis cases this year; 26 of those diagnosed since August were from Sham Shui Po district in Kowloon. Read more. And in Sarawak, Malaysia, the State Health director confirmed two fatal melioidosis cases from at least 15 infections reported in Samarahan, a satellite town of Kuching. More about melioidosis from the US CDC.
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