Wake Up America. You’ve Been Conned. Only An Estimated 9,683 Covid-19 Only Deaths So Far In 2020, Not 180,000

About half-way down the screen page The Center for Health Statistics August 26, 2020 update on provisional death counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) states the following: “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

Oh.  You mean America is not undergoing a pandemic?  On average, abut 8000 people die per day from all causes in the United States.  In the first 8 months of 2020 there were only ~1200 excess deaths per month or 40 extra deaths per day exclusively due to COVID-19 coronavirus infections, with 80% of those among American age 65 and older.  By extrapolation, there were only ~8 excess COVID-19 only deaths per day among working-age adults and school-age children.

Translation: of the 161,392 accumulated COVID-19 RELATED deaths reported as of August 22, 2020 (80% being among Americans age 75 and older), only 6% or ~9683 accumulated deaths were classified as COVID-19 only. Among these COVID-19 only deaths, ~60% were age 75 and older; 80% were age 65 and older. So, there were only ~2000 COVID-only deaths in working age adults and school-age children.

There’s a “Died Suddenly” Epidemic…One Expert Went Through the Data and Reveals The “Coverup”

I don’t need to tell you that there’s a problem. You can see what’s happening with your own eyes. Over the past year or so, there has been a strangely large number of healthy, young people who are “dying suddenly.” These poor people are dropping like flies at an alarming rate. At first, stories of young, healthy people “dying suddenly” were peppered here and there, but now, there are so many of these stories, that I can’t keep up with them. And just imagine how many of these “sudden deaths” aren’t being talked about in the media.

Scary thought. 

Well, it’s gotten so bad, that people are now taking notice and talking about the “Died Suddenly” phenomenon. And one of those people is a former BlackRock fund manager who has poured through the data and what he found, is startling.

Lifestite reported that in his new book, “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” former BlackRock fund manager Edward Dowd details data showing the COVID shots are a crime against humanity.

Insurance industry research in 2016 concluded that group life policyholders die at one-third the rate of the general U.S. population, so they’re the healthiest among us. Group life policyholders are those employed with Fortune 500 companies, who tend to be younger and well-educated.

In 2020, the general U.S. population had higher excess mortality than group life holders, but in 2021, that flipped. Ages 25 through 64 of the group life policyholders suddenly experienced 40 percent excess mortality, compared to 32 percent in the general population. In short, a far healthier subset of the population suddenly died at a higher rate than the general population.
American disability statistics are equally revealing. In the five years before COVID, the monthly disability rate was between 29 million and 30 million. After the COVID jabs, the disability trend changed dramatically. As of September 2022, there were 33.2 million disabled Americans ­– an extra 3.2 million to 4.2 million – a three standard deviation rate of change since May 2021.

Since May 2021, the overall U.S. population has experienced an 11 percent increase in disabilities, while the employed – which is about 98 million out of a total population of about 320 million – experienced 26 percent increased rate of disability. So, something was introduced into the workforce that caused working age people to die.

Edward Dowd goes on to say:

This was an experimental vaccine, a non-traditional gene therapy that had never been tested on humans. I read the literature on the animal tests and they were an abomination. Then, this thing was approved in 28 days. They got rid of the control group. I knew it was Operation Warp Speed, so I was highly suspicious of this whole thing from the get-go.

Then in early 2021, I started hearing anecdotes that people were getting sick and/or injured, or died, from distant friends and relatives. I started reading about sudden athlete deaths, [and] suspected the vaccine right away. I didn’t have the data that I have now, but I said to myself, ‘You know, I’m going to look at insurance company results, funeral home results.’

That eventually led to excess mortality statistics… I’m known as ‘the excess mortality guy’ right now. What I’ve learned through my own personal experience is that Pharma is, on the whole, mostly fraudulent. Most drugs that have been approved by the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] aren’t really all that safe and effective.

They have to recall so many drugs every year. The FDA has been wholly captured by the pharma industry. 70 to 75 percent of the drug approval pharma arm of the FDA comes from pharma fees, directly from the companies, so this has been corrupted for a long time.

It’s now exposed primarily because [the COVID shot] is [injuring and killing] such a large amount of people. It’s hard to hide this one… This fraud is unveiled and out there for people to see, but it’s only in the echo chamber. Mainstream media is still beholden to Big Pharma because of all the ad spend and the government policymakers… [who] want this to go away.

There’s a giant cover-up going on as far as I’m concerned. The data that I’m going to talk about today is there for the global health authorities to see. They see what I see, and at this point it’s negligence, malfeasance, a cover-up and a crime.

I really encourage you to read the entire piece over at Lifesite. Click here.

Chimera

This is a subject that is a work in progress.

I recently went down a rabbit trail due to a word I looked up. The word was “chimera”. I found it extremely interesting considering its many uses and especially the origins of the word from Mythology and that the word is used in science, and it is also used in the game “Dungeons and Dragons. There are several types of Chimeras as well… Even Human Chimeras!

Chimera: notes

Chimera. The word found in nature article/ Increased mortality in community-tested cases of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7

Link 1 Study Abstract (Reference Nature (2021)

Article Link Reference👇

Article: Increased mortality in community-tested cases of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 Science reference of the use of Chimera (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03426-1)

Link 2 Chimera (genetics) Wikipedia (Chimera-Genetics) Chimera Genetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)?wprov=sfti1

Link 3 Chimera (mythology) Wikipedia (Chimera-Mythology) Chimera-Mythology

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)

Link 4 Chimera (mythological beast) Description

Wiki Tools – adjkjc.github (Chimera-Mythology)https://adjkjc.github.io/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(mythology).html

Link 5 Chimera(Dictionary) Wiktionary.org/wiki (Chimera) Chimera definition https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chimera

Link 6 Dungeons and Dragons Wiki pages 5th Edition (5e) Chimera (5e class) Dungeons and Dragons Wiki pages 5th Edition (5e) D&D Wiki (Dandiwiki)(Chimera-5e class)

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Chimera_(5e_Class)

Link 7 Dungeons and Dragons Wiki pages 5th Edition (5e) 5e SRD:Diseases Dungeons and Dragons Wiki pages 5th Edition (5e) D&D Wiki (Dandiwiki/wiki/5e SRD:Diseases)https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/5e_SRD:Diseases

Link 8 Dungeons and Dragons Wiki pages 5th Edition (5e) 5e Chimera Variant Dungeons and Dragons Wiki pages 5th Edition (5e) D&D Wiki (Dandiwiki/wiki/Chimera Variant )(5e Creature)https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Chimera_Variant_(5e_Creature)

Link 9 Dungeons and Dragons Wiki pages SRD:PoisonsDungeons and Dragons Wiki pages 5th Edition (5e) D&D Wiki (Dandiwiki/wiki SRD:Poisons

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Poisons

Link 10 Dictionary (Chimera Genetic)Britannica Dictionary-Science-Chimera-Genetics

https://www.britannica.com/science/chimera-genetics

Link 11 Websters Dictionary (Chimera) 3: an individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution

A hybrid created through fusion of a sperm and an egg from different species is a chimeraWebsters Online Dictionary-Chimera

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chimera

Link 12 Websters Dictionary In Greek mythology,

Webster’s says, the Chimera was a fearsome, fire-breathing monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a dragon’s tail. She terrorized the people of Lycia until their king, Iobates, asked the hero Bellerophon to slay her. Iobates had an ulterior motive; his son-in-law wanted Bellerophon killed and the king was sure the Chimera would do the job. But Bellerophon called in Pegasus, the winged horse, and brought the Chimera down from above. The beast lived on in people’s imaginations, and English speakers adopted her name for any similarly grotesque monster, or, later, for anything fanciful.Websters Online Dictionary-Chimera – Under Did you know?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chimera#note-1

Link 13 Scientists Create a Human-Pig Chimera (27 Jan 2017)

Merriam-Websters – News Trends

https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/scientists-create-a-human-pig-chimera-20170127

Link 14 Virus chimeraScience Daily -Article – Chimera viruses can help the fight against lymphomas https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170914152251.htm

Link 15 The five: chimeras created by scienceArticle from The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/11/the-five-chimeras-human-monkey-hybrid-genetic)

Link 16 The Case of Lydia Fairchild and Her Chimerism (2002) The Embyo Project (https://embryo.asu.edu/) Keywords: Lydia Fairchild, DNA evidence, Human chimeras (https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/case-lydia-fairchild-and-her-chimerism-2002)

Link 17 THE TRUTH ABOUT CHIMERASReference: SQ – THE SCIENCE CREATIVE QUARTERLY (https://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-truth-about-chimeras/)

Link 18 The Human Chimera: Legal Problems Arising From Individuals with Multiple Types of DNA 5-2-2014Reference: Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall (https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1485&context=student_scholarship)

Link 19 Chimerism in humans: Causes: Pathogenesis, Symptoms, Forms, Complications and consequences, Diagnostics, Differential diagnosis, Treatment, Who to contact? Prevention, Forecast Reference: I Live! Ok! Health- MEDICAL EXPERT OF THE ARTICLE

By: Professor Orit REISH (https://m.iliveok.com/health/chimerism-humans_115293i88403.html)

Link 20 The anti-influenza M2e antibody response is promoted by XCR1 targeting in pig skinNature Articles- Abstract (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07372-9)

link 21 Targeting antigens to endocytic receptors expressed on dendritic cells is a potent way to enhance the efficiency of protein and DNA-based vaccines. DC Targeting Dendritic cells (DC) Nature Articles- Abstract – The anti-influenza M2e antibody response is promoted by XCR1 targeting in pig skin (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07372-9)

Link 22 Pubmed Chimeric Publication (The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin: SARS-COV-2 chimeric structure and furin cleavage site might be the result of genetic manipulation) Pubmed -ncbi-nlm-nih-gov (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33200842/)

Link 23 Increased mortality in community-tested cases of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7

Reference to Article:

(https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03426-1)

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High genetic barrier to SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal neutralizing antibody escape

• Fabian Schmidt, Yiska Weisblum, […]Paul D. Bieniasz 

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The number and variability of the neutralizing epitopes targeted by polyclonal antibodies in SARS-CoV-2 convalescent and vaccinated individuals are key determinants of neutralization breadth and the genetic barrier to viral escape1–4. Using HIV-1 pseudotypes and plasma-selection experiments with vesicular stomatitis virus/SARS-CoV-2 chimeras, we show that multiple neutralizing epitopes, within and outside the receptor binding domain (RBD), are variably targeted by human polyclonal antibodies. Antibody targets coincide with spike sequences that are enriched for diversity in natural SARS-CoV-2 populations. By combining plasma-selected spike substitutions, we generated synthetic ‘polymutant’ spike protein pseudotypes that resisted polyclonal antibody neutralization to a similar degree as circulating variants of concern (VOC). By aggregating VOC-associated and antibody-selected spike substitutions into a single polymutant spike protein, we show that 20 naturally occurring mutations in SARS-CoV-2 spike are sufficient to generate pseudotypes with near-complete resistance to the polyclonal neutralizing antibodies generated by convalescents or mRNA vaccine recipients. Strikingly, however, plasma from individuals who had been infected and subsequently received mRNA vaccination, neutralized pseudotypes bearing this highly resistant SARS-CoV-2 polymutant spike, or diverse sarbecovirus spike proteins. Thus, optimally elicited human polyclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 should be resilient to substantial future SARS-CoV-2 variation and may confer protection against potential future sarbecovirus pandemics.

A genetic chimerism or chimera (/kaɪˈmɪərə/ ky-MEER-ə or /kɪˈmɪərə/ kə-MEER-ə, is a single organism composed of cells with more than one distinct genotype. In animals, this means an individual derived from two or more zygotes, which can include possessing blood cells of different blood types, subtle variations in form (phenotype) and, if the zygotes were of differing sexes, then even the possession of both female and male sex organs (this is just one of many different phenomena that may result in intersexuality). Animal chimeras are produced by the merger of multiple fertilized eggs. In plant chimeras, however, the distinct types of tissue may originate from the same zygote, and the difference is often due to mutation during ordinary cell division. Normally, genetic chimerism is not visible on casual inspection; however, it has been detected in the course of proving parentage.

LINK 24 Chimera (mythological beast)

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Description

(https://adjkjc.github.io/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(mythology).html#Description)

For the mythological beast, see Chimera

5e SRD:Chimera

Link 25 Britannica Dictionary:

Chimera Genetics

(https://www.britannica.com/science/chimera-genetics)

Chimera, in genetics, an organism or tissue that contains at least two different sets of DNA, most often originating from the fusion of as many different zygotes (fertilized eggs). The term is derived from the Chimera of Greek mythology, a fire-breathing monster that was part lion, part goat, and part dragon. Chimeras are distinguished from mosaics, organisms that contain genetically different populations of cells originating from a single zygote, and from hybrids, organisms containing genetically identical populations of cells originating from a cross of two different species. Included among the different known types of animal chimeras are dispermic and twin

Link 26 Webster’s Definitions of chimera

1a

capitalized : a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail

1b

: an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts

2

:an illusion or fabrication of the mind especially : an unrealizable dream

a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer

— John Donne

His utopia was a chimera.

3: an individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution

A hybrid created through fusion of a sperm and an egg from different species is a chimera

Human Chimera

COVID-19 HUMANITY BETRAYAL MEMORY PROJECT: Document Your Story

Crimes Against Humanity

We are witnessing crimes against humanity taking place all across this country and all over the world. Our friends and family members have been and are being harmed by measures ostensibly implemented to protect them and keep them safe.
We are witnessing crimes against humanity taking place all across this country and all over the world. Our friends and family members have been and are being harmed by measures ostensibly implemented to protect them and keep them safe.

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For over two years, the people have been abused, manipulated, maligned, and sometimes even murdered in the name of public health. This has been and is still going on in hospitals, assisted living facilities, juvenile detention centers, schools, and really anywhere else that institutional mandates can be applied with force. We, the people harmed by these unamerican and unconstitutional measures, are dedicated to pushing back on this encroachment on our civil liberties, and putting a stop to these grievous harms the people are being forced to endure at the hands of those entrusted to protect them.

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This is one of many projects developed to defend our liberties undertaken by the FFFF. The primary goal of this project is to document, archive, and assist those impacted by these crimes against humanity. We are taking testimonials from those who have survived the protocols mandated by these disastrous policies, interviewing victims and family members to validate their stories, and documenting and archiving everything. We will not allow the victims of these crimes against humanity to go unheard.

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Benefits of Virgin Coconut Oil

COVID and Coconut Oil

HEALTH BENEFITS OF VIRGIN COCONUT OIL

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YouTube CNN Philippines COVID and Health Benefits of Virgin Coconut Oil

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Dr. Oz: Coconut Oil – Health Benefits

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Kakistocracy: noun, government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power

Kakistocracy: noun, government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.

The old saying goes that even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.  So you might think that during a 50-year political career, the odds would dictate that Joe Biden would, once in a blue moon, make a correct decision — just based on the odds.  But you’d be mistaken.  Biden has stumbled and bumbled from one disastrous decision to the next.  Disastrous, that is, for America.  Biden himself has prospered handsomely in spite of his glaring incompetence and corruption. 

Biden’s long Senate career was based on being the credit card companies’ man in Washington.  While crowing endlessly about the working class being “his people,” Biden sponsored bills allowing bank issuers to charge egregious interest rates and to make it harder for working men to escape the credit trap through bankruptcy.

When Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, he turned the confirmation of Clarence Thomas into a political smear campaign that descended into a degenerate three-ring circus. In his first campaign for president, he failed to garner a single percentage point before having to withdraw when confronted with his past lies and blatant plagiarism. He literally stole a speech detailing a British politician’s life story. He ran again in 2008 but again failed to reach even one percent of the vote.

When Barack Obama took him off the primary trash heap to make him vice president, Biden first made a hash out of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, wasting hundreds of billions on boondoggles and giveaways to Democrat cronies. Little of the recovery billions was spent on anything useful to America. Biden went on to manage our relations with China and Ukraine, pocketing untold millions for himself and his family by selling out America’s security interests.

By the time he ran for president again in 2020 he was a spent husk of his former corrupt and incompetent self, delivering asinine performances in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. When the Democrat establishment propped him up to once again stop Bernie Sanders, Biden was set up for the strangest presidential campaign in modern history. While Donald Trump barnstormed the nation with packed, enthusiastic rallies, Biden cowered in his basement, occasionally venturing out to speak with a few dozen voters sitting in circles drawn on the floor.

For his vice presidential pick, he chose — if you can believe it — an even more buffoonish candidate than himself.

Had it not been for Mark Zuckerberg buying and staffing government election offices in swing states, and the media and Big Tech’s censorship of the Biden family’s corruption, Biden would now be enjoying his dotage in Delaware, creeping on unsuspecting children with yarns of Corn Pop and South African arrests.

Instead, the man with one of the most astonishing records of abject failure in Washington was installed in the White House, and he has remained true to form.  As one of a hundred senators and then as vice president, there was a limit to how much damage he could do.  But as president, the shackles have been removed.

His first agenda item was to throttle our oil and gas sector, offshoring tens of thousands of good paying jobs to Russia and the Middle East — along with our energy independence. He threw open our southern border and encouraged virtually unlimited illegal immigration — during a global pandemic.

He sponsored trillions of dollars in wasteful spending, pushing our national debt to over $31 trillion.  Were it not for two Democrat senators who had not yet taken leave of their senses, it would have been even worse.  As it is, Biden has sparked the largest one-year increase in inflation in 40 years.

Biden’s “defund the police” rhetoric delivered us soaring violent crime in Democrat-run cities, while he sicced federal law enforcement on parents who object too strenuously to their children being indoctrinated with anti-White racism and LGBTQIA+ ideology. 

It can truly be said that as president, Biden’s record of failure remains unblemished.  

But now comes what may be the capstone on Biden’s long history of buffoonery and corruption.  In Ukraine, we have an armed conflict that threatens to plunge the world into an economic depression and raises the specter of nuclear war.  Not only did Biden set the stage for this calamity when, as vice president, he was in charge of Ukraine policy and led Kiev to believe that NATO membership was in Ukraine’s future, but on the eve of the Russian invasion, he refused to admit that it was not.  Then Biden all but admitted to Vladimir Putin — on live TV, no less — that NATO would not defend Ukraine if Russia chose to invade. 

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion, Biden and his administration have crafted sanctions that seem almost designed to boomerang on America’s and Europe’s fragile post-pandemic economies, while forcing Russia into a deeper alliance with China

With the U.S. over $31 trillion in debt, Biden seems totally oblivious to the perilous position of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the consequences should that privileged position end. 

Economists predict that food and gasoline will cost the average U.S. household an additional $3,000 this year, and inflation threatens to push millions of lower-middle income-earners into abject poverty.

And bumbling, corrupt Joe Biden isn’t yet halfway through his first — and please God, last — term.

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Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Jim Daws is a recovering talk radio host at jimdaws.com.

A lavender spray was supposed to freshen homes. Instead, it killed two people.

A months-long CDC investigation revealed an aromatherapy spray imported from India and sold at Walmart was contaminated with deadly bacteria.

On July 12, a 5-year-old boy in Georgia arrived at an emergency department following several days of sickness. He’d been vomiting, was weak and had a sore throat. His heart rate was unusually fast. His fever spiked to more than 102 degrees.

Doctors admitted the child to the hospital to keep an eye on him and help keep him properly hydrated. That night, his breathing became labored, and he tested positive for Covid-19.

Doctors immediately started a typical treatment for the infection, including steroids and an antiviral drug called remdesivir. 

He did not get better. Within four days of hospitalization, he died. 

An autopsy later detected the coronavirus in his lungs and upper airways. But it also showed something surprising: bacteria called Burkholderia pseudomallei in the boy’s lungs, liver, spleen and brain.

That finding would eventually lead investigators to solve three other cases of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection that occurred earlier in the year in three different states. Details of all four cases were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Solving a microscopic mystery

The bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei are almost never found in the United States; rather, they’re generally found in contaminated soil or water in parts of South and Southeast Asia. 

But the boy’s family said they had not traveled outside of the country. Samples taken from the family’s water supply and soil outside the home turned up nothing.

Burkholderia pseudomallei can also be aerosolized and inhaled, so investigators tested products inside the boy’s home. 

It was an “arduous investigation,” said study co-author Julia Petras, an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the course of several months, investigators took dozens of samples from products in the boy’s home, she said. 

Three months later, in October, investigators discovered the bacteria in an aromatherapy room spray in the house. The product, the lavender and chamomile scent of Better Homes & Gardens Essential Oil Infused Aromatherapy Room Spray With Gemstones, had been imported from India and sold at 55 Walmart stores, as well as on Walmart’s website.

“When we first got the confirmation, it came as a huge relief to us,” Petras said.

The discovery of the bacteria in the aromatherapy product helped investigators solve the three other cases of Burkholderia pseudomallei infection that had occurred earlier in the year. Each of those patients were found to have the same specific strain of the bacteria found in the spray bottle, suggesting they had also used the contaminated product.

The cases were first made public in October, when the CDC issued an alert about the aromatherapy spray and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Walmart was recalling nearly 4,000 bottles of the product, as well as five other scents under the same product name: lemon and mandarin; lavender; peppermint; lime and eucalyptus; and sandalwood and vanilla.

A difficult diagnosis

Burkholderia pseudomallei cause an illness called melioidosis. It’s treatable with certain intravenous antibiotics if caught early.

But because the bacteria are so rare in the U.S., signs of melioidosis can be mistaken for other respiratory illnesses, such as the flu, Covid or even tuberculosis.

All four patients whose cases are detailed in the new report initially had a wide range of vague symptoms, such as fatigue, shortness of breath, fever and nausea.

One case involved a 4-year-old girl in Texas whose family sought medical attention for her several times after she’d been vomiting and had a fever of more than 103 degrees. Investigators later confirmed her family had the aromatherapy spray product in the house.

Doctors thought perhaps the girl had a urinary tract infection and put her on a variety of antibiotics. Within days, she was hospitalized with septic shock, which causes dangerously low blood pressure and organs to shut down.

The girl survived. But three months after leaving the hospital, the girl still needed to use a wheelchair and was nonverbal, the study authors wrote.

The families of both the young girl and the boy told investigators that they had sometimes used the spray on pillows and bedding, Petras said.

The other two patients were adults, both 53 years old. A man living in Minnesota went into the hospital with weakness and confusion. His fever later soared to 104 degrees, and he had severe pain in one of his hips.

He was later discharged, but his mental status had not improved at that time.

And a woman in Kansas who was hospitalized with breathing problems and weakness later went into septic shock. She died nine days later.

Melioidosis can occur through normal use of contaminated air fresheners and other room sprays, said Dr. Jill Weatherhead, an assistant professor of tropical medicine and infectious diseases at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. 

“We know you can get this infection through inhalation into the lungs,” Weatherhead, who was not involved in the CDC investigation, said. “Unfortunately in this case, the bacteria was already being aerosolized. If you breathe that in, it will cause disease.”

Source: www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/cdc-says-aromatherapy-spray-may-be-linked-to-deadly-infection-124402757653