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Genetic Lessons Of Wisconsin's Elizabethkingia Outbreak
Researchers Worldwide Collaborate To Investigate Uncommon Pathogen
Scott Gordon
WisContext
June 6, 2017 | 9 a.m.
State and federal health officials still don't know the origins of an outbreak of infections in Wisconsin by bacteria called Elizabethkingia anophelis in late 2015 and early 2016. Elizabethkingia is fairly common in the environment, but can be dangerous to the elderly, infants, people already suffering serious illness or immune disorders, and others with weakened immune systems. These bacteria usually sicken a handful of people per year in most states, but in this outbreak, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services confirmed 63 cases in the state, 18 of them fatal...
Genetic Lessons Of Wisconsin's Elizabethkingia Outbreak
Researchers Worldwide Collaborate To Investigate Uncommon Pathogen
Scott Gordon
WisContext
June 6, 2017 | 9 a.m.
State and federal health officials still don't know the origins of an outbreak of infections in Wisconsin by bacteria called Elizabethkingia anophelis in late 2015 and early 2016. Elizabethkingia is fairly common in the environment, but can be dangerous to the elderly, infants, people already suffering serious illness or immune disorders, and others with weakened immune systems. These bacteria usually sicken a handful of people per year in most states, but in this outbreak, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services confirmed 63 cases in the state, 18 of them fatal...