Fungus labeled ‘urgent threat’ by CDC is spreading rapidly, hospital study finds

KTLA ^ | 03/22/2025 | Alix Martichoux

[telescope115]

I wish you and your wife well. I’m on two immunosuppressants, so this stuff concerns me.

[Carry_Okie]

The devices do not come from the manufacturers with Candida all over them. It would be national news. You are confusing "device related" introductions with the device as a cause.

The largest source of nosocomial infections in the NICU where my wife works is from skin flora from the mother's vaginal secretions, to the baby's skin, to contacted surfaces (especially gloved hands), to the device that carries it in. BTW, these people work very closely with Stanford. I'd take their word for it if I were you.

Just because Candida CAN form a biofilm on a device doesn't mean that it comes out of the package that way, especially in the case of disposables about which you made no distinction. Even with reusable devices, they come out of the autoclave sterile. The pathogen is transferred to the device and then it is introduced. That means the problem is procedural.

BTW, your sources are ancient.

[cherry]

Well they don't reuse Foley catheters or feeding tube's or picc lines....

we generally are an unhealthy society and have been antibiotic-ed up the wazzu ..plus the people allowed to be in the hospital have multiple modalities many of them lifestyle choices.

[SunkenCiv]

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