Officials test water, skin care products in mysterious Wisconsin bacteria outbreak

Disease detectives from the CDC are in southeastern Wisconsin trying to track down the source of a deadly bacteria outbreak. So far 18 people have died and more than two dozen others have been sickened by Elizabethkingia since November, all over the age of 65.

Investigators are now working to find out what's spreading it. The CDC says they're on an aggressive search for answers. That's because Elizabethkingia is one of those illnesses that needs to be identified and treated as quickly as possible.







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