Four cases have been identified in people who have not traveled recently—which experts say is “unheard of.”
. On August 9, the agency announced that there have been four cases of the tropical illness in adults and children in four different states: Georgia, Kansas, Texas, and Minnesota. Two people had no known risk factors for the disease and two have died.found that the bacterial strains behind the illnesses closely match each other, which suggests there is a common source for the infections.
, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “This is, at the moment, a conundrum for public health epidemiologists to try to figure out what’s going on here,” he says. “It’s certainly a scientific and public health curiosity.” More than 100 samples from products, soil, and water in and around the patients’ homes have been collected, but no samples have tested positive for the bacteriaAs a result, the CDC suspects that the most likely cause is an imported good, like a food, drink, personal care product, cleaning product, or medicine. “The bacteria normally lives in moist soil and water,” the CDC’s statement says.
Doctors are now being urged to keep an eye out for an any acute bacterial infections in patients that don’t respond to normaland to consider melioidosis as a possible cause, regardless of whether the patient recently traveled. Still, the disease is considered very rare in the U.S., so how concerned about it should you be? Here’s what you need to know, according to experts.Melioidosis is mostly a disease of tropical climates, particularly in Southeast Asia and northern Australia where it’s widespread. The bacteria that causes melioidosis is found in contaminated water and soil, and it’s spread to humans and animals through direct contact with the contaminated source.
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