Deadly bacteria with 50 percent fatality rate found in US Gulf Coast
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported three cases of infection from the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei, with a roughly 50 percent fatality rate, in the US Gulf Coast. According to Julia Petras, an epidemic intelligence service officer with the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, this bacteria “lives naturally in the soil, and typically freshwater in certain areas around the world, mainly in subtropical and tropical climates”. The most …