Elizabethkingia outbreak kept from public because of ‘risk of inspiring fear’: Health officials

By now, most people in Wisconsin are well acquainted with the microorganism, Elizabethkingia anophelis, where the largest known outbreak ever has been reported since late last year. E. anophelis, the Gram-negative bacteria is the cause of an ongoing and deadly outbreak in Wisconsin and, recently, Michigan and Illinois, is generally a rare cause of illness in healthy individuals. However, local ["]