Source implicated in fatal case in Georgia : multistate outbreak of non-travel associated Burkholderia pseudomallei Infections (melioidosis) in four patients: Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas–2021

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  cdc:108679
  
  Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network
  
  October 22, 2021, 6:15 PM ET
  
  CDCHAN-00455
  
  Testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified the bacterial DNA of Burkholderia pseudomallei in an aromatherapy room spray in the home of the Georgia resident who was infected with and died from Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (melioidosis) in July 2021. This Georgia patient was the fourth melioidosis case in a cluster since March 2021 that involved three other patients in Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas, as described previously in HAN Health Update 448: New Case Identified: Multistate Investigation of Non-travel Associated Burkholderia pseudomallei Infections (Melioidosis) in Four Patients: Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas—2021 that CDC issued on August 9, 2021.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Burkholderia Pseudomallei Melioidosis
• Source:
  HAN ; 455
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Update
• Name as Subject:
  National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (U.S.) ; National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Kansas ; Minnesota ; Texas
• Issue:
  455
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
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