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Nearly three dozen people in the United States have been diagnosed with a deadly and highly drug-resistant fungal infection since federal health officials first warned U.S. clinicians last June to be on the lookout for the emerging pathogen that has been spreading around the world.
The fungus, a strain of a kind of yeast known as Candida auris, has been reported in a dozen countries on five continents starting in 2009, where it was first found in an ear infection in a patient in Japan. Since then, the fungus has been reported in Colombia, India, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Pakistan, South Korea, Venezuela and the United Kingdom.
Unlike garden variety yeast infections, this one causes serious bloodstream infections, spreads easily from person to person in health-care settings, and survives for months on skin and for weeks on bed rails, chairs and other hospital equipment. Some strains are resistant to all three major classes of antifungal drugs. Based on information from a limited number of patients, up to 60 percent of people with these infection have died.
Among infectious disease clinicians and laboratory personnel, infections involving fungi don’t typically ring the same kind of alarm bells as antibiotic-resistant bacteria – until now.
“This is a paradigm shift, because Candida is not generally thought of as highly resistant or passed person to person,” he said.
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I believe liberals who work at places like the CDC are going to unleash horrible pathogens
into our country to prove Trump should leave Obamacare alone.
Or something like that.
“Take it easy, Breezy- there’s a fungus among us”
You survived eight years with a Fungus Family in the White House, you’ll survive Candida auris. 👿
> people in the United States
That explains it. Survival is a battle of wits. And one side is severely out gunned. (Literally and figuratively.)
“Because the country [U.S.] doesn’t yet have any “homegrown” strains of the deadly fungus…”
Note what they’re saying without saying it.
It’s an interesting variation on the “see, you NEED universal health care insurance” story. This type of story crops up whenever universal health care insurance needs another push. If is isn’t bird flu, swine flu, or fungus among-us, it’ll be some other scary sounding thing.
DemocRats will be pandering to it in 2020!
Probably from a lab financed by Gates, Soros, Gore or one of the other elites who believe that most of us in the unwashed masses should die. Maybe this is why they’re all building deep bunkers to ride out an Apocalypse…
A sales rep I deal with closely just buried his wife. They had some normal fungus (mold) in their crawlspace and somehow she got some in her lungs. Most people would be “immune” but she got a terrible infection and it began eating away her lungs. They made some progress in treating it but through various complications she died.
Not this same fungus in the article but regardless we all need to work on keeping our immune systems up. Nutrition, diet, exercise and rest are key. Some nasty shiz out there right now.
As a survivor of an antibacterial resistant infection, MRSA, this is very sobering.
(For my part, I contracted MRSA last year in the hospital when I was receiving chemo-therapy. What was supposed to be a three-day, two-night hospital stay turned into a month-long ordeal, with many days in the ICU. Thankfully, I was so out of it I barely remember most of the hospital stay. I do know all my joints locked up, my kidneys shut down and my diaphragm could barely move, making breathing very difficult. The doctors or nurses actually called in a priest on their own initiative to give mt the Last Rites! See the fun you can have when you get Lymphoma!)
The CDC traced the ground zero patient back and found the strain mutated in Hillarys nether regions.
Stay the heck out of hospitals & clinics, and doctor’s offices.
You’re right Blink, but sometimes we don’t have a choice.
This makes my deep-rooted dislike of mushrooms justifiable.
@Richard P: Sorry to hear about your ordeal, but I’m glad I didn’t hear about it until after I had my chemotherapy, otherwise I would have been a lot more paranoid than I already was. Anyway, congratulations on your recovery, and for being the first person I know to ever use the words “Lymphoma” and “fun” in the same sentence.
😉
#FungalLivesMatter!
DC should declare itself a sanctuary city for Fungal Infections!
As should Chicago, LA, NYC, St. Louis, Detroit, Richmond, Gary, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Boulder, Baltimore, Annapolis, KC, and all the rest of those infested shit-holes.
Fungal Infections should receive welfare and legal assistance, too!
All Infestations are Equal!
Mexican, mooselim, Ecuadoran, Somalian, …, whatever …
izlamo delenda est …