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INFECTIOUS DISEASE: Racing to Defuse a Bacterial Time Bomb
Richard Stone
UBON RATCHATHANI, THAILAND--Once ignored as an obscure disease, melioidosis and the frighteningly versatile bacterium that causes it are drawing attention as a bioterror threat.