160k world wide with 80k deaths, but no numbers for the States.
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.