Chinanews.com, August 11, according to the US Chinese website, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert on a rare disease, melioidosis. This disease usually occurs in tropical areas, and is more common in South Asia and northern Australia. However, it has now appeared in Georgia, Kansas, Texas and Minnesota in the United States. Four people were infected and two of them died.
According to reports, what confuses experts even more is that none of these four patients had ever traveled abroad before the onset of the disease. The CDC stated that the “most likely way to cause infection in these patients is an imported product (such as food or beverages, personal care or cleaning products or medicines), or an ingredient in such products.”
The investigators conducted more than 100 samples of the products in each case’s home and the surrounding water and soil, trying to find the connection between the four cases, but so far, nothing has been gained. However, the CDC said that sequencing the genomes of the bacteria infected by the four patients showed that the four cases may be related in some way.
According to reports, about a dozen cases of melioidosis are reported in the United States each year, and almost all cases can be attributed to international travel. This is the first time a health expert has discovered this disease, and it seems to have originated in the United States.
According to the information provided to doctors by the CDC, melioidosis is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, and the disease does not develop until several weeks after exposure to the pathogen. Symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and intermittent fever.
The CDC warns that diabetes, liver and kidney disease, chronic lung disease, cancer or other diseases that weaken the immune system are all risk factors that aggravate the symptoms of this disease. The CDC also urges doctors to pay attention to the symptoms of melioidosis, regardless of where the patient is or whether he has traveled abroad.Return to Sohu to see more
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