Tony Orlando "Candida" | 3:15
AT32010P | 9.96K subscribers | 8,243,903 views | January 27, 2010
Posted on 03/22/2025 1:36:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Candida auris, also called C. auris, was first identified in the U.S. in 2016. Since then, the number of cases have increased every year, jumping substantially in 2023 (the last year of data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
Recently, cases have proliferated in Georgia, the state’s health department told local news outlet WJCL. A study published this week, which focused on the Jackson Health System in Miami also found cases of the fungus have “rapidly increased.”
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People with a healthy immune system may be able to fight off infection on their own, but Candida auris mainly spreads in health care settings, where people are sick and vulnerable. People with catheters, breathing tubes, feeding tubes and PICC lines are at the highest risk because the pathogen can enter the body through these types of devices.
When the fungus infects a patient, it can be hard to identify what’s going on. Symptoms are like those of any infection, including fever and chills.
Another reason Candida auris is so concerning is because of how well it has adapted to surviving on surfaces, like countertops, bedrails and doorknobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
I wish you and your wife well. I’m on two immunosuppressants, so this stuff concerns me.
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.
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.
Tony Orlando "Candida" | 3:15
AT32010P | 9.96K subscribers | 8,243,903 views | January 27, 2010
My first reaction was "Huh?"......Then I got it...LOL!
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