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This photograph depicts Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer, Julia Petras (EIS Class of 2021), LLS Fellow, Maureen Ty (LLS Class of 2021), and an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff member, all pointing at a raccoon carcass they had excavated in Texas, prior to performing a field necropsy, 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.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Heidi Threadgill Honza, Chief Epidemiologist, Texas Department of State Health Services
Creation Date: 2022
Photo Credit: Heidi Threadgill Honza, Chief Epidemiologist, Texas Department of State Health Services
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