I wonder where it could be coming from…we health screen all our immigrants, right?
“...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”!
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.
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/9546/melioidosis
“...Melioidosis is a rare disease in the United States, but it is common in tropical or subtropical areas of the world, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and Australia...”
The article at the top of the thread left a bit out, didn’t it...