For the third time in the US since 2020, a patient in Mississippi was diagnosed with melioidosis due to infection with the locally acquired bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, now considered endemic in the Gulf Coast region of the US.
The CDC discovered a bacterium that causes a disease with a roughly 50% fatality rate living in soil and stagnant water along part of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Burkholderia pseudomalle, 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 CDC.
The CDC discovered a bacterium that causes a disease with a roughly 50% fatality rate living in soil and stagnant water along part of the U.S. Gulf Coast.