CDC identifies possibly deadly bacterium for the first time in US

By Asher Notheis
Published July 28, 2022 4:21pm ET
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CDC identifies possibly deadly bacterium for the first time in US
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning over a bacterium found in the United States for the first time. The bacterium identified by the CDC, Burkholderia pseudomallei, or B. pseudomallei, causes a rare and serious disease called melioidosis, and was found in the Gulf Coast region of southern Mississippi from two […]


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning over a bacterium found in the United States for the first time.

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