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This photograph depicts Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer, Julia Petras (EIS Class of 2021), in Texas, while taking field notes, as she was obtaining soil samples from a raccoon burial site, as part of a multi-state aromatherapy spray-associated melioidosis outbreak investigation (epi-aid). Swabs from the raccoon later tested positive for Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis. There was no evidence of environmental contamination.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ LLS Fellow Maureen Ty
Creation Date: 2022
Photo Credit: LLS Fellow Maureen Ty
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