2016 United States Elizabethkingia outbreak

Disease outbreak in the United States January 2018 February 2025 2016 United States Elizabethkingia anophelis outbreak File:Wisconsin in United States.svg Wisconsin, in red, the location of 63 confirmed cases as of June 16, 2016 2015 11 01 — 2016 05 30 Wisconsin, western Michigan, and Illinois, United States Disease outbreak Elizabethkingia anophelis Cases / Deaths (as of June 16, 2016)June 16, 2016 Multistate Outbreak of Infections Caused by Elizabethkingia anophelis https://www.cdc.gov/elizabethkingia/outbreaks/index.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20160415161200/http://www.cdc.gov/elizabethkingia/outbreaks/index.html April 15, 2016 June 19, 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wisconsin: 63 / 18 Michigan: 1 / 1 Illinois: 1 / 1 20 An outbreak of Elizabethkingia anophelis infections centered in Wisconsin 2021-09-28 Elizabethkingia https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/disease/elizabethkingia.htm live https://web.archive.org/web/20250902175600/https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/disease/elizabethkingia.htm 2025-09-02 Wisconsin Department of Health ServicesPerrin Amandine Larsonneur Elise Nicholson Ainsley C. Edwards David J. Gundlach Kristin M. Whitney Anne M. Gulvik Christopher A. Bell Melissa E. Rendueles Olaya Cury Jean Hugon Perrine Clermont Dominique Enouf Vincent Loparev Vladimir Juieng Phalasy 4 24 May 2017 Evolutionary dynamics and genomic features of the Elizabethkingia anophelis 2015 to 2016 Wisconsin outbreak strain Nature Communications en 8 1 2017NatCo...815483P 10.1038/ncomms15483 free 2041-1723 5458099 28537263 15483 Monson Timothy Warshauer David Elbadawi Lina I. Walters Maroya Spalding Crist Matthew B. Noble-Wang Judith Borlaug Gwen Rocha Eduardo P. C. Criscuolo Alexis Touchon Marie Davis Jeffrey P. Holt Kathryn E. McQuiston John R. Brisse Sylvain is thought to have led to the death of at least 20 people in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois.A mysterious infection may have killed 18 people in Wisconsin, and health officials aren't sure why https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-mysterious-infection-may-have-killed-18-people-in-wisconsin-and-health-officials-aren%e2%80%99t-sure-why/ar-AAgC3fq dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160313080137/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-mysterious-infection-may-have-killed-18-people-in-wisconsin-and-health-officials-aren%E2%80%99t-sure-why/ar-AAgC3fq March 13, 2016 March 11, 2016 Msn.comMarch 4, 2016 Rare Elizabethkingia Bacteria Outbreak Infects 44 in Wisconsin, Killing 18 – ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rare-elizabethkingia-bacteria-outbreak-infects-44-wisconsin-killing/story?id=37399793 live https://web.archive.org/web/20160311025039/http://abcnews.go.com/Health/rare-elizabethkingia-bacteria-outbreak-infects-44-wisconsin-killing/story?id=37399793 March 11, 2016 March 11, 2016 Abcnews.go.comSarah Kaplan 18 March 2016 The mysterious infection that might be behind 17 deaths in Wisconsin has spread to a second state https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/18/the-mysterious-infection-that-might-be-behind-17-deaths-in-wisconsin-has-spread-to-a-second-state/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20160318133109/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/18/the-mysterious-infection-that-might-be-behind-17-deaths-in-wisconsin-has-spread-to-a-second-state/ 18 March 2016 18 March 2016 Washington PostGallardo Michelle Illinois Death Linked to Elizabethkingia Outbreak That Killed 18 http://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-death-linked-to-elizabethkingia-outbreak-that-killed-18/1287763/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20160414200630/http://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-death-linked-to-elizabethkingia-outbreak-that-killed-18/1287763/ April 14, 2016 April 14, 2016 ABC 7 Eyewitness News WLS-TV History As of March 2016, it was reported to be the largest outbreak of Elizabethkingia anophelis-caused disease investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Ehlke Gretchen Source of bloodstream infection in Wisconsin unknown https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/source-of-bloodstream-infection-in-wisconsin-unknown/2016/03/09/e1235934-e60e-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160310113242/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/source-of-bloodstream-infection-in-wisconsin-unknown/2016/03/09/e1235934-e60e-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html March 10, 2016 March 11, 2016 The Washington Post Human infections by E. anophelis involve the bloodstream. Signs and symptoms can include fever, shortness of breath, chills, and cellulitis. Confirmation requires a laboratory test. Statewide surveillance of the situation in Wisconsin was organized on January 5, 2016.March 3, 2016 Cases of blood infection reported in Southeast Wisconsin 44 cases of Elizabethkingia anophelis reported since Nov. 1 http://www.wisn.com/health/dhs-investigates-bacterial-blood-infection-outbreak/38309806 https://web.archive.org/web/20160310113138/http://www.wisn.com/health/dhs-investigates-bacterial-blood-infection-outbreak/38309806 2016-03-10 WISN 12 News Cases had been reported from Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sauk, Sheboygan, Washington, Waukesha, and Winnebago Counties); Illinois; and western Michigan as of April 13, 2016. Between November 1, 2015 and March 30, 2016, 62 cases of E. anophelis infections were reported to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health. The severity of the outbreak is reflected in a statement by the CDC that "the agency sees a handful of Elizabethkingia infections around the country each year, but the outbreaks rarely involve more than a couple of cases at a time. To have dozens of cases at once — and more than a third of them possibly fatal — is startling".4 August 2015 CDC offers new call to arms on nightmare bacteria https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/cdc-offers-new-call-arms-nightmare-bacteria live https://web.archive.org/web/20160311163833/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cdc-offers-new-call-arms-nightmare-bacteria/ 11 March 2016 March 11, 2016 PBS NewsHour In 2017, genomics researchers determined that "a disrupted DNA repair mutY gene [...] probably contributed to the high evolutionary rate of the outbreak strain and may have increased its adaptability," but the source was not identified. 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