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 ...
No because most hospitals have other superbugs like MRSA.
the Post is bringing out a very good point.
The Government CDC has been hiding information from the people for years.
The press is complicit. So are the search engines.
It no longer permits information about pinpointing diseases, sources, and areas.
The morbidity and mortality reports are nebulous.
Someone could make money on a self reporting disease website
This may be the 21st century version of bubonic plague.
Stay out of hospitals. Too many sick people with infectious diseases.
Yes, I think you are correct about those funguses being everywhere including the new “super” varieties that were “discovered” in 2009 in samples from 2004. The discovery is all happenstance based on some imbalance (like the one you suggest) which now manifests in more compromised patients and more fungus opportunity.
Except for one thing. To get "infected" by it (enough to cause it to develop in your bloodsteam, you have to be compromised by some other disease. Second, it has to be injected into you. You cannot absorb in through lungs or skin. In contrast people got the plague from being bitten by infected fleas. I don't think there are fleas carrying the fungus (I have read up, but don't know that for sure). Also would require rats or some other animal to carry the fleas.
yet on another thread the CDC was bitching cause they aren’t getting federal funds for gun violence research. I just can’t see how gun violence falls under the purview of disease control. Maybe they should focus on diseases and less on pet liberal issues.
Thinking about the gay community
Yeah, those guys are pros at compromised immune systems and sharing bloodborne pathogens.
“How can you avoid these dangers?
Stay out of hospitals. Too many sick people with infectious diseases.“
Except for the unpleasant fact that every time you go to your doctor for anything, what is the very first thing they do?
Shove a questionably clean otoscope into both of your ears.
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