Bartonella -- United States
Dr. Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UC Health University of Colorado Hospital, received an unusual call in June 2020 from the microbiology lab: Confirmation of the 3rd case in 2020 of trench fever, a rare condition transmitted by body lice that plagued soldiers during World War I.
Barron's epidemiological training kicked in. "Two is always an outbreak, and then when we found a 3rd, OK, we clearly have something going on," Barron recalled thinking.
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7613880&promed&0
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