The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm on a deadly bacteria that purportedly kills up to 50 percent of people it infects and is now endemic to the U.S. gulf coast.
This from survivethenews.com.
Dr. Julia Petras, an epidemic intelligence service officer at the CDC, has warned:
Burkholderia pseudomallei is likely lurking in soil and the stagnant waters across the 1,600 miles from Texas to Florida.
The bacterial infection induces pneumonia and sepsis and can be fatal. Other symptoms of B. psuedomallei infection include joint pain, fever, and headaches in the early stages.
Globally, the infection kills approximately half of the people it infects. Others are asymptomatic and fight off the pathogens with natural immunity.
Petras said:
Doctors are now on alert for the disease, which can initially be misdiagnosed as another infection.
It’s estimated that there’s probably 160,000 cases a year around the world and 80,000 deaths.
This is one of those diseases that is also called the great mimicker because it can look like a lot of different things.
It’s greatly under-reported and under-diagnosed and under-recognized—we often like to say that it’s been the neglected tropical disease.
Burkholderia pseudomallei is native to topsoil and muddy freshwater in South East Asia and northern Australia.
In 2021 Burkholderia pseudomallei was found in three patients in Kansas, Texas, and Minnesota.
In 2022, the CDC detected the bacteria, also known as B. psuedomallei, in the U.S. for the first time in soil from the Mississippi coast.
The agency cautions the deadly pathogens are now lurking across Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.
Dr. Petras said:
It is an environmental organism that lives naturally in the soil, and typically freshwater, in certain areas around the world—mostly subtropical and tropical climates.
A lot of patients will have pneumonia with sepsis, and/or sepsis, which is associated with higher mortality and worse outcomes.
Coming into contact, including through open wounds or ingestion, with water or soil contaminated with the bacteria will cause infection.
In rare cases, the infection is sexually transmissible and transmitted during pregnancy.
It remains a mystery how the deadly bacteria arrived in the United States.
Seriously? The Obiden Regime is letting anyone and everyone into America unvetted. And someone has the gall to state, ‘how the deadly bacteria arrived is a mystery.’
To date, there are only four recorded cases of B. psuedomallei in the U.S., including two deaths. In one instance, people died in 2021 after inhaling an aromatherapy spray from India that was contaminated with the bacteria.
Two unrelated individuals in Mississippi were infected with the bacteria in 2020 and 2022, prompting the CDC to examine soil and water samples surrounding the patients’ homes. Both patients recovered from the infection.
Dr. Petras assures the CDC has developed protocols to treat the infection.
She said:
We have antibiotics that work. What I’m talking about is IV antibiotics for at least two weeks, followed by three to six months of oral antibiotics.
It’s an extensive treatment, but if you’ve finished the full course and you’re diagnosed early, which is the really key thing, your outcome is probably going to be quite good.
Final thoughts: I smell a False Flag. The WHO involvement in coordinating global care for a pandemic may come soon.
