CDC Sounds the Alarm as Hospital Workers Struggle to Contain 'Urgent Threat' That Has a 30-60% Kill Rate

Western Journal ^ | March 30, 2025 | Jack Davis

[george76]

A drug-resistant fungus is on the rise in American hospitals, targeting patients who already reeling from illness.

New cases have been identified in Georgia and Florida hospitals...

Candida auris has been in the U.S. since 2016, but cases have increased annually through 2023, the most recent year for which the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have data.

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We’ve had four people at one time on and off, over the past few months, and in years past, it was unusual to have one or even two people with Candida Auris in our hospital,” Dr. Timothy Connelly at Memorial Health in Savannah said, according to WJCL-TV.

JoAnna Wagner from the Georgia Department of Public Health said Georgia has had more than 1,300 cases through February.

The fungus spreads through medical equipment that enters the body, such as breathing tubes, feeding tubes, or catheters.

The kicker? Traditional cleaning solutions or disinfectants do not touch the fungus.

Many of the disinfectants that are EPA-registered and historically used by hospitals and medical facilities are not effective against C. Auris,” Wagner said.

The CDC called Candida auris “an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat”

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If you get infected with this pathogen that’s resistant to any treatment, there’s no treatment we can give you to help combat it. You’re all on your own,” Melissa Nolan, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina, said,

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fool me once...

[CodeToad]

*yawn*

No one believes a thing the CDC says since they lied so bad about covid-19.

[mikey_hates_everything]

"Many of the disinfectants that are EPA-registered and historically used by hospitals and medical facilities are not effective"

There's part of the problem. Good luck, HIV carriers.

[blueyon]

“The fungus spreads through medical equipment that enters the body, such as breathing tubes, feeding tubes, or catheters”

So are they reusing breathing tubes and catheters and such? How does a fungus get into a brand New - clean, sterol tube to begin with?

[Jim Noble]

Candida auris is real, rare, easy to diagnose if you are looking for it, and the deaths are mostly due to failure to diagnose.

Most hospital labs have been set up to identify it for at east five years.

[wildcard_redneck]

I don’t buy it. Bleach kills everything.

[LastDayz]

Gotta wonder whether an ozone generator would take care of that problem.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Same here but is bleach EPA-registered? I’ve seen some pretty lame cleaning products used in government office spaces that are EPA-registered. Useless crap.

[AuntB]

When I was homeless after being burned out after the Almeda urban arson proven wildfire, and sleeping anywhere I could find, in often filthy places with no bath facilities, I caught a fungus on my shoulder. The doctor was useless..told me to wash it with head and shoulders.
I tried all kinds of antifungals. The only thing keeping it at bay is iodine.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Wiki --- "DNA analysis of four distinct but drug-resistant strains of Candida auris indicate an evolutionary divergence taking place at least 4,000 years ago, with a common leap among the four varieties into drug-resistance possibly linked to widespread azole-type antifungal use in agriculture.[4] However, explanations for its emergence remain speculative."

Been around a while, eh?

Choices -- be afraid, or don't be.

[jimtorr]

Is it time to go back to old-fashioned methods? I’ll bet an autoclave would kill this fungus amongus.

[Red Badger]

Many of the disinfectants that are EPA-registered and historically used by hospitals and medical facilities are not effective against C. Auris,” Wagner said.

I think I see the problem.....................

[rktman]

Hmmmmmmm! Open borders, open sores, hmmmmmm?!

[Third Person]

Georgia and Florida…

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Even Terbinafine? That stuff is pretty strong...

[Secret Agent Man]

Well, take it serious. It is bad and very difficult to get rid of. I’d probably go with clove oil, rosemary oil, and oil of oregano, plus ivermectin.

[Danie_2023]

“”So are they reusing breathing tubes and catheters and such? How does a fungus get into a brand New - clean, sterol tube to begin with?””

Uh... I don’t think you’re supposed to use logic and ask reasonable questions like that.

[Secret Agent Man]

Airborne, and resting on surfaces, hands touch surfaces and then open the tube packages, touch the tubes,...

[null and void]

Someone ping Fungi...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.