Posted on 04/06/2019 9:04:49 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Last May, a elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed he was infected with a newly discovered germ. Doctors isolated him in ICU. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a British medical center to shut down its ICU, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.
Recently C. auris reached New York, NJ and Illinois, leading the federal CDC and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed urgent threats. The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room... so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.
Everything was positive the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump, said Dr. Scott Lorin, The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.
In 2015, Dr. Johanna Rhodes, an infectious disease expert at Imperial College London, got a panicked call from the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. C. auris had taken root there, and the hospital couldnt clear it.
Under her direction, hospital workers used a special device to spray aerosolized hydrogen peroxide around a room used for a patient with C. auris. They left the device going for a week. Then they put a settle plate in the middle of the room with a gel at the bottom that would serve as a place for any surviving microbes to grow, Dr. Rhodes said.
Only one organism grew back. C. auris.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
These nasty pigs in the last administration have started the ball rolling, Trump needs to close the door on these bastards, the cell door
Many years ago a fellow worker came to work with his right ear filled with a white paste.
I asked him about it, and he said 25 years earlier he had picked up an ear infection while overseas in the service, and occasionally it would flare up and needed to be treated.
Obviously some of these bacterial infections can be tenacious and beyond modern medicine's control. - Tom
good movie but I don’t remember what was said in this clip.
Mea culpa
Missed the fine print.
Go read the article. Hard to excerpt. This is a disease organism coming in with immigrants. No one wants to talk about that, do they?
No they don’t. I almost came to blows with some hag about us seeing diseases take on a new life with all these immigrants. We had these diseases when we were kids but my kids and grands didn’t because they were vaccinated!! God help the scientists trying to find a solution for all this “new” stuff........
"Germ" may refer to not just a bacterium but to any type of microorganism or even non-living pathogen that can cause disease,
such as protists, fungi, viruses, prions, or viroids.[1]
Diseases caused by pathogens are called infectious diseases."
Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
I’m wondering why the big deal is being made of measles vaccination at this time. It seems to be a push to shame people to get vaccinated without questioning possible side effects. What happens when there’s a vaccine discovered to counter new diseases? Will people accept them even if there’s no knowledge of their long-term effects?
Thank you. I learned something today.
If the story about the aerosolized hydrogen peroxide in the Mt Sini room is true, I don’t see how this bug can be beat...
Yeah, me too !
I enjoy this forum as it provokes all sorts of research.
It keeps the mind active !
A compromised immune system and/or an open surgical wound would already have the body's immune system already activated.
In situations where death occurred, I wonder if there would be any listing of Candida auris (fungus) as a contributing factor ?
My hats off to you and your daughter.
In organ transplant patients they must sipressthe recipient’s immune system so it dies not reject the donor’s tissue.
In organ transplant patients they must supress the recipients immune system so it does not reject the donors tissue.
Sorry... needed my glasses
Ci Senor,
Lettuce in!!!!
Dere’s a fungus among us!
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" It was spreading, but word of it was not. The hospital, a specialty lung and heart center that draws wealthy patients from the Middle East and around Europe, alerted the British government and told infected patients, but made no public announcement.
There was no need to put out a news release during the outbreak, said Oliver Wilkinson, a spokesman for the hospital.
I’m immune-compromised due to leukemia. In my world, the only place more dangerous than my doctor’s office is a hospital.
I give thanks to God for IVIG (which is basically antibody transfusions) and having enough insurance to cover the substantial cost.
Missed the fine print.
No problem. Making a sincere effort not to eviscerate critics, but guide them gently to truth.
TEKEL, you have been weighed ... and found wanting (To Lose Weight!!!)
Like your byline...
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