Four people, all from different states, came down with the same serious tropical disease though none of them had travelled internationally.
The suspect? An aromatherapy spray imported from India.
Two our of the four were fatalities, one being a child from Georgia. The rest of the victims are from Kansas, Minnesota and Texas.
The Centres For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the main link was found in the same type of bacteria in a spray bottle found in one of their homes.
They identified the disease as melioidosis, also known as Whitmore’s disease. Usually, when Americans are diagnosed with melioidosis, it’s associated with travel.
But these cases popped up in the middle of a pandemic, when international travel was virtually nonexistent, and none of the affected families had traveled.
The disease is actually most commonly seen in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Northern Australia, and is found in soil and contaminated…