In the United States two people died after being infected with a battery infection called melioidosi, also known as Whitmore’s disease, an infectious and transmissive disease widespread mainly in the regions of Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. The US Centers for Disease Control sounded an alarm because this disease had only been seen in tropical climates. In the US, it has been identified in Georgia, Kansas, Texas and Minnesota, according to LiveScience. The only other known cases of melioidosis in the United States have been in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
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How it was imported
None of the four patients said they traveled out of the country before falling ill between March and July of this year. The CDC “believes the most likely cause is an imported product (such as a food or drink, personal care or cleaning products, or medicines) or an ingredient in one of those types of products,” according to the statement released on Monday. . Investigators took more than 100 samples of soil, water, and common products used in and around each patient’s home to uncover a link between the four cases, but have so far found no common source, the New York Post reports. . Genome sequencing of the bacteria revealed that the four cases are probably related in some way, the CDC added.
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Symptoms of the disease include coughing and shortness of breath, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, intermittent fever and rashes, the CDC wrote in a message to doctors on how to spot the disease. Risk factors for developing the disease include diabetes, liver or kidney disease, chronic lung disease, cancer, or another condition that weakens the immune system, the CDC has always warned. A dozen cases of melioidosis are observed every year in America, almost all attributable to travel. This is the first time that doctors have seen that the disease appears to originate in the contiguous United States.
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