Nope, no clue ...
Posted on 04/30/2016 9:02:35 AM PDT by StCloudMoose
A rare blood infection is claiming lives, and the CDC can't pinpoint the source.
The infection, caused by the Elizabethkingia anophelis bacteria, has killed 17 people in Wisconsin since November and just claimed a life in Michigan, the Detroit News reports.
Elizabethkingia is often found in water and soil, but – until now – has seldom caused infections. So far, 54 Wisconsin residents have contracted the infection, CNN reports. "We don't see 48 of the identical organism causing an outbreak like this very often," Michael Bell, deputy director for the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, told Wisconsin Public Radio. "In fact, this is probably the largest one we've seen."
Wisconsin and Michigan residents are urged to keep an eye out for symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath, chills or cellulitis. Many people who contracted the infection were over age 65 and had health problems and compromised immune systems.
Behold, a rider on a pale horse?
Poor hygiene?
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
‘the CDC can’t pinpoint the source’
is a euphemism for:
1) they are not allowed to take time
from helping Obama import and Quarter
incurable diseases to murder children
and 2) besides, they can not even
pronounce the disease’s name.
Exactly
Bingo
17 dead out of 54....that’s not great odds
with a name like ‘elizabethian’ in it it sounds like it may be poor hygiene as they had pretty poor hygiene back then i believe? Good question-
It is named after the biologist who discovered it iirc
ah ok- Was she an elizabethian?
Just keeping the cheesehead population in balance.
Several years ago when the CDC was warning about the rise of drug resistant TB, they published a map of the US showing where the TB was most prevalent.
Another government agency had published a map showing the distribution of illegals. The maps were nearly identical. I put them side by side and posted the result to FR. That would be about 2008 or so.
Water supply?
I remember that. Stunning image.
Wiki:
In 1959, the 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”).[1] In 1994, it was reclassified in the genus Chryseobacterium and renamed Chryseobacterium meningosepticum[2](chryseos = “golden” in Greek, so Chryseobacterium means a golden/yellow rod similar to Flavobacterium). In 2005, a 16S rRNA phylogenetic tree of Chryseobacteria showed that C. meningosepticum along with C. miricola (which was reported to have been isolated from Russian space station Mir in 2001 and placed in the genus Chryseobacterium in 2003[3]) were close to each other but outside the tree of the rest of the Chryseobacteria and were then placed in a new genus Elizabethkingia named after the original discoverer of F. meningosepticum.[4]
All the infections that are mysterious can be traced back to the illegals coming here.
Prolly a direct result of the Cruz mania in the air.
The book by this title written by William Cooper he was assassinated by government on false charges . Can’t remember the year
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