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Posted on 06/06/2023 3:34:36 PM PDT by Libloather
A deadly bacteria that kills up to 50 percent of people it infects has now been listed as endemic along the US gulf coast.
Dr Julia Petras, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who made the warning, said Burkholderia pseudomallei was now likely lurking in soil and stagnant water across the 1,600 miles from Texas to Florida.
People infected with the bacteria suffer melioidosis, a severe condition that can trigger pneumonia and sepsis and can be fatal.
Doctors are now on alert for the disease, which can initially be misdiagnosed as another infection.
The CDC declaration comes less than a year after it was detected in the US for the first time in soil from the Mississippi coast.
Dr Petras said: 'It's estimated that there's probably 160,000 cases a year around the world and 80,000 deaths.
'This is one of those diseases that is also called the great mimicker because it can look like a lot of different things.
'It's greatly under-reported and under-diagnosed and under-recognized - we often like to say that it's been the neglected tropical disease.'
The bacteria - also known as B. psuedomallei - is native to tropical areas in South East Asia and northern Australia.
But the CDC is now warning it has been identified in the gulf states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
In these areas, the agency warns it may be lurking in topsoil or muddy fresh or brackish water.
People can become infected after coming into contact with the water or soil - including through open wounds - or ingesting it.
It is unclear how the pathogen arrived in the United States, although this may have traveled by infected travelers.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I wonder where it could be coming from…we health screen all our immigrants, right?
Only a lock down, a mandatory shot and full socialism can save us.
Article does not say how many cases there have been, nor how many fatalities.
“...is native to tropical areas in South East Asia and northern Australia.”
I thought for sure they were going to bring up “manmade global warming”!
How many illegals landed on the US gulf coast.
Long ago Michael Savage said new plagues are usually spread by immigrants. He predicted we would experience odd new viruses due to unrestrained foreign immigration. Said this over a decade ago.
Micheal Savage (born Michael Weiner). He holds master’s degrees from the University of Hawaii in medical botany and medical anthropology, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in nutritional ethnomedicine.
Could someone spread this by a balloon? Just askin.’
160k world wide with 80k deaths, but no numbers for the States.
What could have happened in the past couple of years to make such a bacterial illness endemic in the U.S.?
Might it be the continuous flow of illegal aliens coming across our border without being checked for any viruses or diseases? I know the media will respond to such a question by saying,”Certainly not!”.
Therefore, such a bacterial disease must be due to global warming or systemic racism. For those are the two main causes of any weather problems including both droughts and floods, along with any illness or injuries, that may suddenly appear in our country. This applies to incidences in both the past and the present (and future as well).
How about a lockdown? 😊😆😀
An excellent catch. It is minor and is "estimated" to kill off about one one-thousandeth of one percent, while the "normal" deaths in a given population are a little over one percent per year. It's been known about for over a century. Here is an article on the whole family.
"Pathogenicity and virulence of Burkholderia pseudomallei"
Source URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635556/
It is likely that what we have going on is called "be afraid, be very afraid." And subscribe, read the ads, click, click and click some more.
Here's some non-CDC advice. Don't be digging in the dirt with a seeping OPEN wound. Gosh, we need an expensive government agency and an expensive "epidemic intelligence officer" to tell people with open wounds not to get the wounds dirty? Sheesh.
Here you go. 2021 outbreak:
“In March-July 2021, CDC confirmed four linked cases (including two deaths) of melioidosis in patients from Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas. Most cases of melioidosis in the United States are in people who traveled to areas where the disease is more common, but these patients had no recent history of international travel.”
https://www.cdc.gov/melioidosis/outbreak/2021/index.html
DM loves to hype stuff and scaremonger.
Why hasn’t some gubmint agency done a “gain of function” on this and make it a lot more deadly and easily spread?
Give them time.
I think they mean when they introduced it into the country.
Ideally, this would wipe out the entire Biden regime. And it would be fitting, as it’s probably some of his beloved illegal criminal invaders who brought it here to kill us all.
It's only fair that they're going to have to live with it too.
You forgot MASKS. /s
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