CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield October 23, 2021 15:48:00
You. so what is behind there bacteria recall that's taking place? >> yeah, it's really a fascinating story and a medical mystery, although i think it's about to be solved, fred. so it's a disease called meliodosis, caused by a bacteria that's actually a pretty important cause of death, around 90,000 deaths per year predominantly in southeast asia, thailand, vietnam, in singapore, northern australia, and it's a bacterium that lives in the soil. and during monsoon seasons, it gets kind of -- the high winds it gets kind of swept up. sometimes it aerosolizes and people inhale it or rice farmers ge...
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