Deadly fungal infection that doctors have been fearing now reported in U.S.

kansascity.com ^ | 03/11/2017 | Lena H. Sun

[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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#38: "Maryland “Freak State” PING!"

I've had the chance to spend a few months in western Maryland. It's beautiful, rural, mountainous, and solidly conservative. Total red state. Common sense dictates that it should really be part of adjoining West Virginia. Anywhere in that state west of I-81 is OK.

[CGVet58]

Bttt

[trebb]

In mushroom form it is a delicacy....

[Tax-chick]

Use tea-tree oil.

[GOPJ]

This is really bad news...

[trisham]

Thanks for the ping, TIK!

[LadyDoc]

Not a joke... we used to use eardrops with vinegar for outer ear infections...and when we were doing wound care for our diabetics, we got resistance of germs and fungus in the wounds so switched to vinegar dressings. We also used to use vinegar douches for ladies with yeast infections.

the ear infections in diabetics can be nasty...one problem is cleaning them twice a day to drain. In the good old days we could hospitalize them or do home visits.

but once the fungus goes inward, vinegar won't work...

[Daffynition]

I know, I was being factitious