[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/24/2021 6:40:41 PM EST
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https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/22/melioidosis-outbreak-georgia-walmart/ The product, Better Homes and Gardens Lavender and Chamomile Essential Oil Infused Aromatherapy Room Spray with Gemstones, was sold at 55 Walmart locations and on the company’s website from February to Oct. 21. Walmart has issued a recall for roughly 3,900 bottles of the product that it sold. The recall includes five other scents of the Better Homes and Gardens Gem Room Spray: lemon and mandarin, lavender, peppermint, lime and eucalyptus, and sandalwood and vanilla. The four cases that have been detected in the United States occurred over a five-month period, from March to late July. Two of the infected people died, including a child. The cases occurred in Kansas, Minnesota, Texas and Georgia, where a bottle of aromatherapy spray retrieved from the home of one of the fatal cases led to a break in the case. The bottle tested positive for contamination with Burkholderia pseudomallei, the bacterium that causes melioidosis. It is commonly found in soil and water in parts of South and Southeastern Asia, and northern Australia, but not in the continental United States, where it’s classified as a dangerous pathogen that could threaten public health. The strain found in the aromatherapy spray, manufactured in India, matches strains from South Asia. We should stop importing diseases from South Asia. |
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Quoted: Fuck china mart and the ccp. I pray to baby Jesus that they will choke on 87 billion dicks. China isn't in India. Attached File |
| Gods on the throne must be watching from hell, awaiting the mass genocide. Shoppers defeated by death from a smell, bodies lie dormant, no life. Rising new souls from the lands where they fell, demons not ready to die. Nothing to see see where the sleeping souls lie! AROMATHERAPY!!! |
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Quoted: China isn't in India. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/13258/map-of-the-world-according-to-americans_-2142687.JPG |
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Quoted: China isn't in India. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/13258/map-of-the-world-according-to-americans_-2142687.JPG 
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Quoted: Weird India usually has such an outstanding reputation for cleanliness and quality control. My employer sent buyers to Asia every year, getting all sorts of cheap crap from China and India. We sold alphabet blocks from India one year, wound up having to recall them due to worms burrowing out of the blocks when little kids played with them. 
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Quoted: My employer sent buyers to Asia every year, getting all sorts of cheap crap from China and India. We sold alphabet blocks from India one year, wound up having to recall them due to worms burrowing out of the blocks when little kids played with them. Jesus wtf? Speed |
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The type of infection and the course of treatment will impact long-term outcome. Treatment generally starts with intravenous (within a vein) antimicrobial therapy for a minimum of 2 weeks (up to 8 weeks depending on extent of infection), followed by 3–6 months of oral antimicrobial therapy. holy moly.....talk about having the flying shits for a while |
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Quoted: Garbage bags too Quoted: Quoted: About 87% of retail products are outgassing quasi-toxic chemicals, because they smell good. Laundry products are loaded with them so that people can marinade in the fumes 24/7. a nurse one time told us not to use petroleum jelly, because it's a petroleum product. Fuck that...I rub it on my feet when I am sick |
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Quoted: https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/22/melioidosis-outbreak-georgia-walmart/ The product, Better Homes and Gardens Lavender and Chamomile Essential Oil Infused Aromatherapy Room Spray with Gemstones, was sold at 55 Walmart locations and on the company’s website from February to Oct. 21. Walmart has issued a recall for roughly 3,900 bottles of the product that it sold. The recall includes five other scents of the Better Homes and Gardens Gem Room Spray: lemon and mandarin, lavender, peppermint, lime and eucalyptus, and sandalwood and vanilla. The four cases that have been detected in the United States occurred over a five-month period, from March to late July. Two of the infected people died, including a child. The cases occurred in Kansas, Minnesota, Texas and Georgia, where a bottle of aromatherapy spray retrieved from the home of one of the fatal cases led to a break in the case. The bottle tested positive for contamination with Burkholderia pseudomallei, the bacterium that causes melioidosis. It is commonly found in soil and water in parts of South and Southeastern Asia, and northern Australia, but not in the continental United States, where it’s classified as a dangerous pathogen that could threaten public health. The strain found in the aromatherapy spray, manufactured in India, matches strains from South Asia. We should stop importing diseases from South Asia. Essential oils = science denialism for the left |
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Quoted: My employer sent buyers to Asia every year, getting all sorts of cheap crap from China and India. Â We sold alphabet blocks from India one year, wound up having to recall them due to worms burrowing out of the blocks when little kids played with them. Â All cultures are equal. |
| They banned a substance for only 4 deaths? How ridiculous! I'm surprised the usual suspects haven't been in to explain that people die from bacterial infections all the time, and there's no reason to think this was from the air freshener, which has been proven to be safe and effective (TM). |
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Quoted: My employer sent buyers to Asia every year, getting all sorts of cheap crap from China and India. Â We sold alphabet blocks from India one year, wound up having to recall them due to worms burrowing out of the blocks when little kids played with them. Â "It's a feature not a bug" |
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Quoted: "It's a feature not a bug" Quoted: Quoted: My employer sent buyers to Asia every year, getting all sorts of cheap crap from China and India. Â We sold alphabet blocks from India one year, wound up having to recall them due to worms burrowing out of the blocks when little kids played with them. Â "It's a feature not a bug" In that case, it WAS a bug.
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Quoted: Why does Room Spray with Gemstones exist as a product anyway? Seems like adding unsterilized rocks is how this spray got contaminated. Makes me happy to see this idiots self selecting. The type of people who believe stones have magical power are weak minded anyhow. Guarantee they are 100% covidiots also. |
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Quoted: Gods on the throne must be watching from hell, awaiting the mass genocide. Shoppers defeated by death from a smell, bodies lie dormant, no life. Rising new souls from the lands where they fell, demons not ready to die. Nothing to see see where the sleeping souls lie! AROMATHERAPY!!! iunderstoodthatreference.jpg |
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Quoted: Walmart has issued a recall for roughly 3,900 bottles of the product that it sold. The recall includes five other scents of the Better Homes and Gardens Gem Room Spray: lemon and mandarin, lavender, peppermint, lime and eucalyptus, and sandalwood and vanilla. Fuck that. Just make a vaccine for it and move on. They just gipped another pharmaceutical company out of some money. |
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Quoted: Let's pay money for this can of chemicals because it smells good.  I bought a bottle of a magic elixir called Hoppes Love Potion Number 9, and promptly spilled 80% of it on the gun room floor. My gun room smell like righteous, gun-cleaning paradise right now. Was I not supposed to do that? |
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Quoted: Gods on the throne must be watching from hell, awaiting the mass genocide. Shoppers defeated by death from a smell, bodies lie dormant, no life. Rising new souls from the lands where they fell, demons not ready to die. Nothing to see see where the sleeping souls lie! AROMATHERAPY!!! Dam, son. You was a poet an' never even know it. 
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Quoted: I bought a bottle of a magic elixir called Hoppes Love Potion Number 9, and promptly spilled 80% of it on the gun room floor. My gun room smell like righteous, gun-cleaning paradise right now. Was I not supposed to do that? The 'aromatherapy' morons could benefit from just opening a window - apparently it could even save their lives. |
[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart (Page 1 of 2)
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