Comprehensive mapping and modelling have estimated global deaths from the bacterial disease melioidosis to be comparable to deaths from measles and substantially greater than those from dengue or leptospirosis.
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Currie, B., Kaestli, M. A global picture of melioidosis. Nature 529, 290–291 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/529290a
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