{"id":121398,"date":"2024-11-03T00:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121398"},"modified":"2024-11-03T00:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:47:49","slug":"experts-fear-us-spread-after-5-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121398","title":{"rendered":"Experts fear US spread after 5 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There could be a silent killer lurking in your backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are sounding the alarm about the danger of a lethal bacterium found in American gardens after it caused the death of multiple people in Australia this year.<\/p>\n<p>Burkholderia pseudomallei, a bacteria present in soil and water in tropical regions, can cause Melioidosis, a lung infection that may result in pneumonia or sepsis, and has a mortality rate of up to 50% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2022\/p0727-Melioidosis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in some cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 alone, five people in Australia have died of the disease, which is contracted after contact with contaminated soil. <\/p>\n<p>Experts fear that natural disasters <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/14\/us-news\/dramatic-photos-reveal-how-hurricane-milton-reshaped-florida-cutting-some-iconic-beaches-in-half\/\">like hurricanes, storms<\/a> and other inclement weather could<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/12\/us-news\/hurricane-francine-aftermath-could-lead-to-rise-in-bacterial-infections-in-south-cdc-warns\/\"> increase the risk of its spread<\/a> in the United States. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"33764406\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3338983050847;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"33764406\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria colonies grown on sheep blood agar over a period of 72 hours\" class=\"wp-image-33764406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 5200w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=300,225&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=768,576&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 768w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=1024,768&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=1536,1151&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 1536w, 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=376,282&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 376w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=180,135&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 180w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=95,71&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 95w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=93,70&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 93w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=200,150&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=231,173&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=322,241&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=588,441&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 588w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=80,60&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 80w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=77,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 77w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=208,156&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 208w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=150,112&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/burkholderia-pseudomallei-grown-sheep-blood-92878710.jpg?resize=50,37&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The bacteria has a fatality rate of up to 50%, and those with underlying conditions are at a higher risk of infection. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe most serious way that people can get it is when there\u2019s severe\u00a0weather\u00a0events, such as monsoonal storms, and in particular, when there are tropical cyclones with wind and rain the bacteria are aerosolized and people can then breathe it in,\u201d Bart Currie, a professor of medicine at the Menzies School of Health Research, told <a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/silent-garden-killer-puts-aussies-on-high-alert-after-claiming-five-lives-065107584.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK6kV04-fUU-hmyBb22tQuf1zGkxJAIQhS85PGC_ukEU0Xu8rIa9Z_28Pq_eyssBI1Tn5c7q9Esp-DaCH8xogU-8MF4DUb1he_8MSTZZt5MisxW12q2los7JbmSJKv0mPInGE_9UhQPUs3VjNPTtg4my6-D2RGums22fr9tN0dE7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yahoo News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticularly if people are caught out in storms and severe weather \u2014 even healthy people can get very sick from it. That\u2019s what causes the most severe form of melioidosis, which is a very severe pneumonia, which turns into blood poisoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"33764407\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.74915254237288;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-modal-image=\"33764407\" width=\"442\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?w=767\" alt=\"A hand with a visible cut, symbolizing the underrecognized and underdiagnosed disease melioidosis\" class=\"wp-image-33764407\" 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=231,308&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=322,430&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=300,401&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=330,441&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 330w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=45,60&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 45w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=43,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 43w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=117,156&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 117w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=640,853&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/melioidosis-emerging-infection-increasing-endemic-92878702.jpg?resize=37,50&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 37w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\"\/><figcaption>The bacteria can enter the body through a cut. <span class=\"credit\">Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>While the bacteria is most commonly found in Asia and Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/melioidosis\/risk-factors\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cases of melioidosis<\/a> have been found in the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and even Mississippi. In 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified cases of the illness in patients from Texas, Minnesota, Kansas and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/06\/cdc-warns-of-deadly-bacteria-with-50-fatality-rate-that-has-been-declared-endemic-to-the-us-gulf-coast\/\">declared an endemic<\/a> due to the spread of the disease in the Gulf Coast. At the time, experts said people with kidney and liver problems are at an increased risk of infection, which is sometimes asymptomatic.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/melioidosis\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">symptoms<\/a> do occur, they include fever, headache, muscle pain, confusion, chest pain, trouble breathing and seizure. The illness requires a round of IV antibiotics for two weeks and months of oral antibiotics afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of those diseases that is also called the great mimicker because it can look like a lot of different things,\u201d Julia Petras, epidemic intelligence service officer for the CDC\u2019s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2023-06-02\/cdc-warns-of-potentially-fatal-bacterial-illness-on-u-s-gulf-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previously told HealthDay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s greatly under-reported and under-diagnosed and under-recognized \u2014 we often like to say that it\u2019s been the neglected, neglected tropical disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/02\/lifestyle\/lethal-bacteria-could-be-lurking-in-your-garden-experts-fear-us-spread-after-5-deaths\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There could be a silent killer lurking in your backyard. 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