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This disease kills half the people it infects. So why isn’t more being done?

MORU Bangkok

Melioidosis is a bacterial infection that quietly causes thousands of deaths each year. Meet Direk Limmathurotsakul, the doctor who made it his mission to make the world take notice.

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The full story is available on the Mosaic Science website

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