Large Muslim immigration from Somali ?
We might have a winner here. Lewiston is overrun.
They tend to congregate in one region. And this isn’t so much an immigrant international-germ issue as it is identifying the bacteria soon and beginning very aggressive treatment.
It is a bad infection and survival rate is not all that good. But you only usually hear about 2 or 3 deaths from it a year. To hear that there were 5 deaths in one state alone is pretty shocking to me, especially since most contractions are from water/fish in southern, warmer climates.
This has nothing to do with the Somali pop here in Maine. The family lives on an island which use to be part of Portland, but is about an hour by boat to reach the mainland. This is a upper middle class family. The kid’s health just went downhill very fast.