Victor<p>Over a 3-year period, three men in Mississippi were infected with a newly identified strain of the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/bacterium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacterium</span></a> that causes <a href="https://spore.social/tags/melioidosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>melioidosis</span></a> after contact with contaminated <a href="https://spore.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> and soil, the first known cases of environmental transmission in the continental United States. <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/waterbornedisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waterbornedisease</span></a> <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/contaminated-water-soil-tied-rare-tropical-disease-melioidosis-3-men-same" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-t</span><span class="invisible">opics/contaminated-water-soil-tied-rare-tropical-disease-melioidosis-3-men-same</span></a></p>