Talk:Melioidosis

Biological warfare potention
I propose moving this section to Burkholderia pseudomallei instead, as the discuss would focus primarily on chracteristics of the bacterium that make it suitable for weaponisation. --Gak 02:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Synonyms
Removed synonyms Whitmore's Disease and Nightcliff Gardener's Disease from the introductory paragraph, because these are not common names and are already listed in the Synonyms section at the bottom.--Gak (talk) 12:46, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

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Asymptomatic exposure
There is some discussion going on on the Symptoms and signs section at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. NikosGouliaros (talk) 21:31, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Weak Source #47
At the time of this writing (10/24/21) source #47 ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448110/ ) claims that "It has been alleged that the Soviet Union employed it as a biological weapon in Afghanistan between 1982 and 1984.", however the citations of this section do not back up this claim or mention any relation. I propose that the Biological Warfare section be edited with better sources, and the reference to the Soviet-Afghan War be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:8D:8000:1084:60DD:9D35:7523:66C1 (talk) 23:22, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Prognosis
This article states several times that most people experience no symptoms then goes on to say that over 50% of people who contract the disease die from it. There must be an error in one of these statements (presumably the contraction or mortality statistics) 2A02:C7C:D338:8B00:A083:C8F8:F2D1:C1C8 (talk) 19:56, 13 May 2023 (UTC)