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A Rare Blood Infection Is Killing People in Wisconsin and Michigan
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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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: bacterialdisease; blood; blooddisease; bloodinfection; elizabethkingia; infection; michigan; wisconsin
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1 posted on 04/30/2016 9:02:35 AM PDT by StCloudMoose
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To: StCloudMoose

Behold, a rider on a pale horse?


2 posted on 04/30/2016 9:11:51 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: StCloudMoose

Poor hygiene?


3 posted on 04/30/2016 9:12:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: RipSawyer

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.


4 posted on 04/30/2016 9:14:42 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: StCloudMoose
the CDC can't pinpoint the source
Nope, no clue ...
5 posted on 04/30/2016 9:16:10 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

‘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.


6 posted on 04/30/2016 9:26:08 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: oh8eleven

Exactly


7 posted on 04/30/2016 9:26:21 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: oh8eleven

Bingo


8 posted on 04/30/2016 9:29:05 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon sThailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: StCloudMoose

17 dead out of 54....that’s not great odds


9 posted on 04/30/2016 10:00:34 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: BenLurkin

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-


10 posted on 04/30/2016 10:26:40 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

It is named after the biologist who discovered it iirc


11 posted on 04/30/2016 10:42:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

ah ok- Was she an elizabethian?


12 posted on 04/30/2016 10:49:55 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: StCloudMoose

Just keeping the cheesehead population in balance.


13 posted on 04/30/2016 10:54:01 AM PDT by MarMema ("if voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it" mark twain)
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To: oh8eleven

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.


14 posted on 04/30/2016 10:58:28 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: StCloudMoose

Water supply?


15 posted on 04/30/2016 11:00:19 AM PDT by uncitizen (PST! Patriots Support Trump - Join Today!)
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To: Islander7

I remember that. Stunning image.


16 posted on 04/30/2016 11:01:01 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Bob434

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]


17 posted on 04/30/2016 11:02:45 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: StCloudMoose

All the infections that are mysterious can be traced back to the illegals coming here.


18 posted on 04/30/2016 11:25:02 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Prolly a direct result of the Cruz mania in the air.


19 posted on 04/30/2016 11:33:08 AM PDT by Arrian
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To: RipSawyer

The book by this title written by William Cooper he was assassinated by government on false charges . Can’t remember the year


20 posted on 04/30/2016 11:54:10 AM PDT by mt tom
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