'Huge shock': unprecedented rise of killer soil disease

‘Huge shock’: unprecedented rise of killer soil disease

Evan Brown thought he had been suffering from the flu after being sick on and off for a month. But soon after his 40th birthday, the Cairns father-of-two was rushed to hospital. “By the time I got to the hospital, they said he was in septic shock and basically he was deteriorating really quickly,” his wife Sarah Brown told AAP. His condition worsened despite multiple tests before a doctor asked what Ms Brown thought was an unusual question: do y…

'Huge shock': unprecedented rise of killer soil disease

A rare, soil-borne disease has killed dozens of people after record rain and flooding, prompting a warning from one woman who lost her husband to the illness.