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  • Cameron County outbreak of bacteria common during war time a mystery[South Texas]

    05/25/2008 5:11:00 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 5 replies · 209+ views
    The Monitor/Brownsville Herald ^ | May 25, 2008 | Emma Perez-Treviño
    BROWNSVILLE - The origin of drug-resistant bacteria's recent outbreak at Cameron County hospitals is stumping health officials. Similar outbreaks of the opportunistic Acinetobacter baumannii have been possibly linked to war veterans. But Dr. Brian Smith of the Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday that the source of the local AB outbreaks was still unknown. And while U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention studies suggests the bacteria could be linked to war veterans, there is no evidence that the local outbreak could have originated from a military veteran who served in Iraq or Afghanistan, Smith said. In an...