Posted on 02/02/2024 6:05:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
A rapid rise in reports from around the world of a deadly fungal infection is sounding alarm bells about the dangers of drug resistant diseases.
First discovered in Japan in 2009, Candida auris is a type of yeast that can cause severe illness and spreads easily in healthcare facilities. Cases proliferated during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Widespread infections in the United States led the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to label it an “urgent threat”.
More recently, scientists in China called for closer monitoring of the potentially fatal fungus after a study found that almost all of the cases recorded there in 2023 exhibited resistance to drugs.
1. How prevalent is it? First reported in the US in 2016, C. auris started to spread rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the CDC, in 2022 there were 2,377 American clinical cases, in which a patient presents with symptoms, and an additional 5,754 screening cases, in which an asymptomatic individual tests positive.
In the latest outbreak, four people tested positive for the diseases in Washington, the first ever report there.
A study led by researchers at Shanghai’s Fudan University and Tongji University found that there were 182 outbreaks of C. auris in China in 2023.
That is a marked increase from previous years, when the numbers ranged from eight to 26.
According to the study, almost all of the strains tested in China were resistant to the anti-fungal drug fluconazole, and a small percentage could not be treated with two other fungicides, caspofungin or amphotericin B.
The increase in cases could be due to enhanced efforts to detect the fungus.
Similar surges have been seen in some European countries, alongside outbreaks in India and South Africa.
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Compromised immune systems?
A study led by researchers at Shanghai’s Fudan University and Tongji University found that there were 182 outbreaks of C. auris in China in 2023.
That is a marked increase from previous years, when the numbers ranged from eight to 26.
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The increase in cases could be due to enhanced efforts to detect the fungus.
Just what we need: Some new crud to infect us.
Pople?
Would be my first guess.
How about cordyceps? Look out for bloaters.
Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP
I was waiting for that.
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The Rest of US.
R.I.P.
People must continue demanding antibiotics for their runny noses.....can’t be a good doctor if he doesn’t hand out pills.
Oh yes i’ve heard of this one. This is the Zombie Ant fungus that infects the brains of ants and causes them to climb down to the humidity where it’s growth is favored and anchor themselves to a leaf. The fungus then punctures the head of the ant and the spores spread to the other democrats who are then infected in the universities. They climb down to become Antifa spreading their spores out to the beemer crowd until it infects and kills the entire nest.
Are pople just Catholic people?
Great pathogenesis explanation.
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There is a way to deal with candida and other pesky parasites.
https://purelivingcr.com/turpentine-cleanse/?amp=1
I aim to please.
A deceptive fungus. Takes mumerous forms contingent on its environment.
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