Aromatherapy spray made in India and sold at Walmart blamed for two deaths

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The first patient to get sick, in Kansas in March, died. 9News

It was a mystery by any definition of the word - a rare tropical infection that had sickened people in the decidedly non-tropical states of Minnesota and Kansas, as well as Texas.They all were infected with a bacteria known as Burkholderia pseudomallei, and the disease it causes is called melioidosis, marked by non-specific symptoms such as cough and shortness of breath, weakness, fatigue and nausea.

"It really was a fishing expedition because we didn't have any early clues to guide us in any direction," McQuiston told CNN. "And in that particular second search, they collected a specimen from an air freshener bottle that had not been collected the first time around, and this week that we got a positive PCR results out of that air freshener bottle for Burkholderia pseudomallei," McQuiston said.

"That's why we thought it was so important to go out quickly with this information, even though we're still waiting on the sequence confirmation results showing that what came from the bottle matched the patient from Georgia. The PCR results are what prompted us to go forward with this announcement. "So the significance of the rocks we don't really know yet, but having rocks in a fragrance bottle is definitely unusual. So that's something I think we're interested in looking at."

 

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Vaccines blamed for 200,000 deaths in US... crickets!

If it's from India it's likely just scented sewer water.

You know why they call it 'alternative medicine'? Because if it worked it would just be called 'medicine'.

Vax death memorial at Brisbane Botanical Gardens. Average age of death from covid is 80-85 globally! These people had years before they got to 80 😭

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