Posted on 03/11/2017 7:18:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
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. Many of them also had other serious underlying illnesses.
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In the United States, the largest number of infections has been reported in New York, with at least 28 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infections have also been reported in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Last June, the CDC sent an urgent alert to clinicians to start looking for the infections, which are difficult to identify with standard laboratory methods.
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O that reminds me. Does anyone know when the show Strain begins?
...a story about left wing “culture”
Just what we need. Another drug resistant ailment.
Blue states getting infected? I’ll give a shi’te wheb it hits the USA......
When I was working my way through college, the first time, I worked as a nurse’s assistant in a hospital isolation ward. We had lots of rules about suiting up and face masks and gloving and double gloving. And the stuff we were guarding against were all the harmless stuff like regular hospital germs and the stuff the patients in the 1970’s had, before AIDS and all the foreign drug-resistant strains. But you know what? I was better prepared to care for patients then with the lesser degree of germs and viruses than any of the nurses today who are facing some real scary stuff.
I was sick with Valley Fever in high school and almost died. Fungal infections are no joke. N
oh my goodness- I don’t know how nurses and doctors do it today- one mistake- and it can have devastating consequences- for life- Even kill early like with aids
It was a way different world back then- I had to have blood transfusions before they really knew about aids- a couple of times actually- and spent plenty of time in hospitals when the epidemic was just getting going- I was very fortunate that I didn’t contract anything- I remember when the epidemic began to be discovered- it was discussed in school- as noone knew just how bad it was going to be at he time- everyone was fearful it could be easily spread- that folks could get it off toilet seats- from urinals etc- people were genuinely scared back then- I remember when news stations began first reporting about it-
As for things like MRSA- don’t those grow in sterile environments only?
I was wondering when we were going to have another ‘the viruses are coming the viruses are coming’ story. The story about half the urban east coast being STD-infected fizzled out so I guess fungi are good stand-in in a pinch. How much does the WHO want from American taxpayers this time?
Has shown up internationally
Some strains are resistant to all three major classes of antifungal drugs.
This fungus allegedly has 60 percent fatality rate in addition to medication resistance
Immune compromised people are at high risk for fungal infections. I had to take anti fungal meds for a year for prophylactic purposes.
But, a fungal infection like this is beyond the meds I took.
“but so far the U.S. cases have been treatable with existing drugs.”
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
The Freak State: now home to the latest nasty fungal infection.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I don't know I didn't get into nursing, but it would not surprise me.
I remember reading about a small group of maybe three or four of Mother Teresa's nuns were taking care of AIDS patients, this was before they had any idea how it was spread by blood and body fluids. I can't remember how many of the group died from AIDS, but that was really sad.
So, you were very lucky.
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