The Secret “King Elizabeth” Disease Killing Everyone In Wisconsin
An “alien” illness has made 54 people ill since November 2015 in Wisconsin. The disease comes from a rare strain of bacteria called “ElizabethKingIa”. Many refer to it as the “King Elizabeth Killer” – it has claimed 15 lives so far, as reported by wired.com: Elizabethkingia is common in the environment—in soil, in water—but it rarely gets people sick. Cases pop up in ones and twos, usually in people with weak immune systems, says Michael Bell, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s healthcare quality division.