Figure 3.

Map of the Kimberley region showing notable melioidosis events and environmental sampling for B. pseudomallei. Melioidosis fieldwork for WA in 1997 and 1999; West Kimberley melioidosis outbreak was located in a remote community of around 200 persons (star). In 2001, environmental surveillance, water sampling expedition, from Wyndham to Broome along route of Great Northern Highway. From 2004–2007 occupational health risk assessment for mine site (filled circle). In 2009, environmental sampling along eastern Gibb River road and from Mt. Hart Station to Fitzroy Crossing. Remote communities on the northwest coast remain unsampled.