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[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Researchers concluded that the culprit behind the extremely unusual 2019 outbreak was the intestinal pathogen, Campylobacter jejuni. The gut-dwelling bacteria is well-known as one of the most common causes of food poisoning and diarrheal cases in the world. But, less well-known, it's also one of the leading triggers for GBS.

Adding this because I think it's pretty critical for your quotes. So this is something that has been (likely) foodborne in Peru before. But the article implies that only about 2/3 of their identified cases showed signs of the same infection.

[-] june@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Sorry, yea, I had that context in my head when I posted my comment 😅

[-] livus@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

They declared their GBS emergency a couple of weeks ago, but Peru is also in the middle of a big Dengue fever epidemic with over 146,000 cases, so maybe they're related somehow?

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