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Oregon hospital reports outbreak of rare, fungal superbug
The Hill ^ | 12-29-21 | BRAD DRESS

Posted on 12/29/2021 2:45:19 PM PST by dynachrome

An Oregon hospital is reporting an outbreak of a superbug fungus that has hospitalized three people in the state, health officials said.

Oregon on Tuesday confirmed three cases of Candida auris at a hospital in Salem, the state capital. The first case was detected on Dec. 11, according to the Oregon Health Authority. The second case was confirmed on Dec. 23 and the third Dec. 27.

Federal, state and local health officials are investigating the outbreak.

C. auris is a type of yeast fungus that is difficult to detect and is heavily resistant to drugs, making treatment of infected patients difficult. The pathogen was first detected in 2009 at a hospital in Japan and inside the U.S. in 2013.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called C. auris a "serious global health threat" and has reported 1,156 clinical cases of the yeast fungus in states stretching from New York to California.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: fungus; hospital; oregon; superbug
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The replacement for covid? (or is the Israel bird flu the replacement per earlier story on FR?)
1 posted on 12/29/2021 2:45:19 PM PST by dynachrome
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“Fortunately, the organism we’re dealing with in this outbreak appears to respond to existing treatments,” she said in a statement. “Nonetheless, it’s critical that we prevent the spread of the infection.”

The fungus can cause bloodstream and wound infections, with symptoms including fever and chills. It can also colonize people’s skin and spread through close contact or via contaminated surfaces.

C. auris is extremely hard to detect and requires special equipment to identify.”


2 posted on 12/29/2021 2:45:59 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

Change up from MRSA?


3 posted on 12/29/2021 2:47:50 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: dynachrome

Fungus passed on from ANTIFA who refuse to shower?


4 posted on 12/29/2021 2:48:11 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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5 posted on 12/29/2021 2:49:37 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of<p Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: dynachrome

Id it’s rare I won’t worry about it.


6 posted on 12/29/2021 2:50:06 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: dynachrome

Hey dynachrome, are you still following/listening to Michael Savage? Wonder if he was still doing his thing. Curious if he was pro-Trump.


7 posted on 12/29/2021 2:51:17 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of<p Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

He does a podcast now, but I haven’t listened in a couple of years.


8 posted on 12/29/2021 2:52:24 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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President Obama’s Ebola problem

https://thehill.com/news/administration/220922-president-obamas-ebola-problem


9 posted on 12/29/2021 2:53:31 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: dynachrome

Fauci is getting right on that for a vaxx


10 posted on 12/29/2021 2:53:40 PM PST by roving
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When America's health policy is run by medical professionals who, despite their extensive subject matter knowledge worthy of our most serious consideration, being singularly focused lack perspective of all other considerations and who have no more wisdom than anyone else, you get what America has now: Everything is a health crisis; every disease, every infection that can possibly kill you is everywhere and requires strict government controls to save us from it. Nothing else matters! Nothing!!

Get a life, people! It's long past time to end "control by experts"; "control by politicians"; control by unelected bureaucrats"! It's long past time to stop living in fear and cowardice and depression and distrust and, especially, anger.

11 posted on 12/29/2021 2:55:41 PM PST by glennaro (Stop living your precious life in irrational fear. Live unmasked, unvaxxed, unbullied and unafraid.)
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When nearly everyone’s immune system has been compromised by the vaccinations, this is what happens.


12 posted on 12/29/2021 2:59:39 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: null and void

Ping


13 posted on 12/29/2021 3:01:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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If you’ve ever seen many of the womyn in the Portland area, a yeast fungus of that type is not surprising...


14 posted on 12/29/2021 3:02:33 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: dynachrome

More fear porn from the 50 IQ weenies at The Hill. If it’s “rare” and only three people have been “infected,” then there’s nothing to worry about.


15 posted on 12/29/2021 3:04:40 PM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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Fungi are notoriously difficult to fight.

I found out because they are closer to animals than previously thought. Not simply plants. Thus killing fungus can kill animals.


16 posted on 12/29/2021 3:11:57 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Fungi

Cut it out!


17 posted on 12/29/2021 3:13:30 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Will PETA try to protect this rare, endangered fungi, then?


18 posted on 12/29/2021 3:14:20 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Due to the 24-hour news cycle and proliferation of social media and more people getting “journalism” degrees, people are writing stories about almost every little, tiny thing that happens in this country. They need content and will just spew out nonsense stories about nothing. And this nonsense will scare people.


19 posted on 12/29/2021 3:15:29 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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I wonder of CoupFlu vaxxes are making recipients more susceptible to the fungal infection...


20 posted on 12/29/2021 3:21:07 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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