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A deadly infection is sweeping some NY hospitals — but health officials won’t say where
nyPOST ^ | 4/12/2019 | Betsy McCaughey

Posted on 04/14/2019 5:02:34 PM PDT by bitt

A killer germ is raging through some New York hospitals and nursing homes. But public health officials are deliberately keeping the public in the dark about it.

New York state is ground zero for this germ, called Candida auris. Over half the nearly 600 cases nationwide are right here, mostly in New York City. New Jersey hospitals are also hard hit, with more than 100 cases so far. A staggering 45 percent of patients who get it die within 90 days.

It’s especially dangerous because once it gets inside a hospital, it spreads. Patients with Candida auris shed it from their skin, putting everyone around them at risk. It also clings to privacy curtains, mattresses and bedrails, walls and ceilings, and it can live there for weeks. Routine cleaning can’t remove it. You don’t want to be assigned to a hospital room where a previous patient had this germ.

Candida auris also travels through the hospital on thermometers and blood-pressure cuffs used on one patient after another.

How can you avoid these dangers? Secrecy makes it hard.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: betsymccaughey; candidaauris; dsj02; fungus; germ; mccaughey; superbug; supergerm
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To: Gay State Conservative

Dr. Kildare of Blair General would solve the problem if he and it weren’t fictional.


21 posted on 04/14/2019 5:40:11 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: wally_bert; null and void
[Dr. Kildare of Blair General would solve the problem if he ... weren’t fictional.]


22 posted on 04/14/2019 5:43:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: patriot torch

With 24,000 restaurants in Manhattan alone, it would collapse the economy.


23 posted on 04/14/2019 5:47:43 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: bitt

From Health mag in March 2019: “The fungus, a type of yeast called Candida auris, can lead to an infection of the bloodstream, heart, or brain, and these infections are difficult to treat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in March that nearly 600 cases in 12 states have been confirmed so far in 2019. Alarmingly, more than one-third of patients who develop an invasive infection from Candida auris die, according to the CDC.

The fungus isn’t just hitting the U.S.: It’s been detected in Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, and Africa. There are three main classes of antifungal medications, and some Candida auris infections are resistant to all of them. This is why some are calling Candida auris a superbug, a name typically given to bacteria that’s resistant to antibiotics.

Candida auris infections may be difficult to recognize, Bernard Camins, MD, medical director for infection prevention at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, tells Health. “The symptoms may not be any different from any other infection you see.” They include fever, weakness, low blood pressure, and feeling tired.”


24 posted on 04/14/2019 5:50:47 PM PDT by alabama_heart
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To: Innovative

I heard the anti funguls used in agriculture may be helping to build these super bugs.


25 posted on 04/14/2019 5:58:07 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: SaveFerris

I like the OTR show better.

Never cared for House.


26 posted on 04/14/2019 6:01:15 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: wally_bert

Never saw much of the other show.

House is pretty good, but obviously Leftist.

I never watched much of the show on TV. I only catch clips now and then.


27 posted on 04/14/2019 6:05:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bitt

“It’s especially dangerous because once it gets inside a hospital, it spreads.”

Sounds like a Staff Infection - very common.


28 posted on 04/14/2019 6:18:54 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: SaveFerris

The OTR stuff is out there on YT and other places.

I preferred Quincy.

He yelled at everyone for about half of an episode.


29 posted on 04/14/2019 6:25:00 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: headstamp 2
I heard the anti funguls used in agriculture may be helping to build these super bugs.

As may the incessant use of disposable anti-bacterial wipes and anti-bacterial infused plastic childeren's toys. These both end up in the toxic soups of landfills and those plastic kids' toys last a loooong time giving micro-organisms plenty of chances to develope resistancy.

30 posted on 04/14/2019 6:25:08 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: bitt

A Republican is in the White House, which controls the CDC. One would think the CDC knows exactly where every case is.


31 posted on 04/14/2019 6:30:03 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: wally_bert

[He yelled at everyone for about half of an episode.]

LOL sounds about right.


32 posted on 04/14/2019 6:30:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hot Tabasco
So what exactly are the symptoms and what is it and what does it do?

It grows on surfaces and transnits through blood, cuts, or inside the ear. Every transmission I have read about was a catheter or something stuck in someone's ear. It does not create spores like ringworm and doesn't spread by air (into lungs). It does not grow on skin. The symptoms in a bad infection are fungus in the blood stream and kidney failure. Unfortunately the drugs also cause kidney failure.

33 posted on 04/14/2019 6:33:08 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: headstamp 2

I don’t think it’s a superbug. The main problem seems to be misdiagnosis and inadequate cleaning. H2O2 doesn’t kill it, but chlorine bleach does.


34 posted on 04/14/2019 6:38:33 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: SaveFerris

He’d yell at Astin, Monahan, Brill, and Sam plus the whoever was the problem person or suspect.


35 posted on 04/14/2019 6:40:04 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: bitt

The hospitals are setting themselves up for huge law suits. Imagine a restaurant still serving customers, knowing they have a salmonella outbreak in the kitchen.


36 posted on 04/14/2019 6:43:05 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: palmer

Chlorine dioxide is even better.


37 posted on 04/14/2019 6:44:02 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Maskot

Best of luck to your mother-in-law.


38 posted on 04/14/2019 6:45:38 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: bitt

Trump 2020

Give me your sick, without records,
Your migrant caravans gasping to breath free,
The wretched policies of sanctuary cities.
Send these, to spread disease, such as candidia auris:
I lift my leg on congressional doors!


39 posted on 04/14/2019 6:50:14 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: Maskot
My mother in law has been in the hospital for two weeks with s mysterious malady that has been misdiagnosed at least 4 times. She’s on intravenous antibiotics, big ones. First it was sepsis, then bad flu, then kidney/uti. Now it’s “superbug”. Apparently this “superbug” has super powers of invisibility because they STILL haven’t given a correct diagnosis.

Antibiotics allow fungi to thrive, probably an enabler for Candida auris, and other mysterious fungus infections. If your mother is on powerful antibiotics, get her on highly concentrate probiotics ASAP. Example: Super Biotics II

40 posted on 04/14/2019 7:19:23 PM PDT by disclaimer
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