Posted on 06/07/2023 1:23:45 PM PDT by bitt
A deadly bacteria with a roughly 50 percent fatality rate worldwide has made its way to the US Gulf Coast, where it has been declared endemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC has confirmed three cases of infection from the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei, which can cause potentially lethal melioidosis if not treated.
“It is an environmental organism that lives naturally in the soil, and typically freshwater in certain areas around the world. Mostly in subtropical and tropical climates,” Julia Petras, an epidemic intelligence service officer with CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, told HealthDay News.
The most recent case was reported in Mississippi in January.
Two others were confirmed in the same Mississippi county in July 2020 and May 2020.
However, most of those people infected with the bacteria don’t show symptoms and develop antibodies against it, meaning many more people are likely infected, Petras said.
In all three Mississippi cases, the patient recovered.
“This is one of those diseases that is also called the great mimicker because it can look like a lot of different things,” Petras told the outlet. “It’s greatly under-reported and under-diagnosed and under-recognized — we often like to say that it’s been the neglected, neglected tropical disease.”
People are typically infected by the bacteria through open wounds or by inhaling the germs during a strong storm.
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RUN!!! /s
“The most recent case was reported in Mississippi in January.
Two others were confirmed in the same Mississippi county in July 2020 and May 2020.”
GET OUT THE MASK, LOCK DOWN THE SCHOOLS, AND CLOSE THE ECONOMY TO “FLATTEN THE CURVE!”
THIS IS A TEST.
Hmmm, kills 50% of the people who get it, but we do not know how many get it because they either do not become very sick or they do not come up with an accurate diagnosis....
So the 50% is a scare tactic.
It has been around for some time.... so it has been around us for a while.
It is not easily spread.... so wash your hands and arms after fooling around in the dirt or in storm drains.
Probably from all the untested chemicals dumped on the oil spill.
probably brought over by all the illegals coming across the southern boarder.
WARM SPEED! GET A VACCINE!
"However, most of those people infected with the bacteria don’t show symptoms and develop antibodies against it."
This couldn’t POSSIBLY be from the hordes of illegals pouring in from all over the world, could it?
With sea levels rising like they are it will be 100k years and it will be on my door. Time to panic.
BINGO!
Can a bacteria be an invasive species?
Burkholderia pseudomallei is well known to the kinds of people who work in bioweapons labs.
Here it comes...the next vote-by-mail-so-we-can cheat scam!
“However, most of those people infected with the bacteria don’t show symptoms and develop antibodies against it...”
Right, so it sounds like the “50%” is regarding the number of people who die if they don’t develop antibodies against the bacteria, which is probably a pretty small minority already.
Democrats are super spreaders. Lock them all up.
More CDC bullshit, imho.
so the Chinese coming in from the southern boarder then
I don’t see why not.
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