Posted on 03/20/2016 7:53:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
As health official continue to search for the origins of the ongoing Elizabethkingiam outbreak, the rare blood infection has now made its way to a second state. Having already sickened over 50 people since first being detected in Wisconsin in November, the Michigan Department of Health said Thursday that one of its own residents has tested positive for the infection.
After being diagnosed with Elizabethkingiam, the elderly patient with several existing health conditions later died.
The Wisconsin Department of Health has so far confirmed 54 cases of Elizabethkingiam
“The majority of patients acquiring this infection are over the age of 65, and all patients have a history of at least one underlying serious illness,” read the statement from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
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My goodness, what did Elizabeth King do to warrant having a deadly disease named after her?
Prior to this outbreak, I’d never heard of this disease. So, it’s bacterial, how is it typically spread? Is it due to unsanitary conditions? Apparently, healthy people with no other underlying conditions are not known to be at risk.
Courtesy of Obama- his importing of millions of muzzies and other 3rd worlders for colonization of America.
from wikipedia.
E. meningoseptica predominantly causes outbreaks of meningitis in premature newborns and infants in neonatal intensive care units of underdeveloped countries.
Some of the outbreaks have been linked to sources like contaminated lipid stock bottles, contaminated venous catheter lines and nutritional solution, and tap water. The bacterium is also a rare cause of nosocomial pneumonia, endocarditis, postoperative bacteremia, and meningitis in immunocompromised adults. Only recently has it also been found to cause soft tissue infection and sepsis in the immunocompetent[9] and in a case of a fatal necrotizing fasciitis in a diabetic patient.[10]
48 cases of Elizabethkingia infection resulting in 17 fatalities were reported in Wisconsin over a 5-month period beginning in November 2015.[11]
A year or so ago, I went to a town hall meeting held by Senator Vitter. I asked him about the diseases the immigrants were bringing into the country. He said that I was right, that he had issued a statement regarding public health, but he seemed to avoid using the word “disease”.
Has anyone ever heard an elected official complain about diseases the immigrants are bringing in? Some new diseases and some once eradicated from this country.
Third world people living like they’re still in the hellhole they came from?
[Elizabeth O. King, 20th-cent. U.S. microbiologist]
An aerobic, gram-negative, nonmotile, yellow rod-shaped bacterium found extensively in nature. It sometimes causes opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts.
This strain of bacteria’s symptoms include: bacterial skin infections like cellulitis, chills, fever and shortness of breath.
Is there some indication that recent immigrants are coming down with it?
Still more preferable to the dreaded Obamakingiam, where the patient constantly wanders about aimlessly, declaring himself to be king and demanding cruise missiles be shot at unsuspecting African dictators. It’s a horrid, horrid prognosis, sometimes manifesting itself 5 or so years before finally settling into declining conditions.
“Third world people living like they’re still in the hellhole they came from?”
You mean like they use one hand to wipe their bottom with and then don’t wash both hands afterwards?
Or where if they do use paper they throw it in the trash or on the floor? ( indicative of being raised with a septic tank sewage system)
How about the ever popular practice of going in the field and then wiping their hands on the produce they are paid to harvest?
Isn’t diversity wonderful?
Remind yourself of that while feasting at the salad and fruit bar today at whatever restaurant you visit!!
Even if there were would you expect it to be reported as such?
It wouldn’t be directly attributed, no, that would not be PC, but it would probably be evident with a little research.
FYI
BINGO
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica is a gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium widely distributed in nature (e.g. fresh water, salt water, or soil). It may be normally present in fish and frogs but is not normally present in human microflora. In 1959 American bacteriologist Elizabeth O. King (who isolated Kingella in 1960), was studying unclassified bacteria associated with pediatric meningitis at the CDC in Atlanta, when she isolated an organism (CDC group IIa) that she named Flavobacterium meningosepticum (Flavobacterium means “the yellow bacillus” in Latin; meningosepticum likewise means “associated with meningitis and sepsis”).
Source: Wikipedia
Sorry! I should have read further.
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