Posted on 04/06/2019 9:04:49 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Last May, a elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed he was infected with a newly discovered germ. Doctors isolated him in ICU. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a British medical center to shut down its ICU, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.
Recently C. auris reached New York, NJ and Illinois, leading the federal CDC and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.” The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room... so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.
“Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr. Scott Lorin, “The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.”
In 2015, Dr. Johanna Rhodes, an infectious disease expert at Imperial College London, got a panicked call from the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. C. auris had taken root there, and the hospital couldn’t clear it.
Under her direction, hospital workers used a special device to spray aerosolized hydrogen peroxide around a room used for a patient with C. auris. They left the device going for a week. Then they put a “settle plate” in the middle of the room with a gel at the bottom that would serve as a place for any surviving microbes to grow, Dr. Rhodes said.
Only one organism grew back. C. auris.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Sanctuary states?
Los Angeles getting typhus outbreaks..
Right. How many diseases cured in this country now being revived by illegal aliens being turned loose.
Candida auris: A Drug-resistant Germ That Spreads in Healthcare Facilities
Candida auris fact sheet
Candida auris (also called C. auris) is a fungus that causes serious infections. Patients with C. auris infection, their family members and other close contacts, public health officials, laboratory staff, and healthcare personnel can all help stop it from spreading.
Why is Candida auris a problem?
It causes serious infections. C. auris can cause bloodstream infections and even death, particularly in hospital and nursing home patients with serious medical problems. More than 1 in 3 patients with invasive C. auris infection (for example, an infection that affects the blood, heart, or brain) die.
It’s often resistant to medicines. Antifungal medicines commonly used to treat Candida infections often don’t work for Candida auris. Some C. auris infections have been resistant to all three types of antifungal medicines.
It’s becoming more common. Although C. auris was just discovered in 2009, it has spread quickly and caused infections in more than a dozen countries.
It’s difficult to identify. C. auris can be misidentified as other types of fungi unless specialized laboratory technology is used. This misidentification might lead to a patient getting the wrong treatment.
It can spread in hospitals and nursing homes. C. auris has caused outbreaks in healthcare facilities and can spread through contact with affected patients and contaminated surfaces or equipment. Good hand hygiene and cleaning in healthcare facilities is important because C. auris can live on surfaces for several weeks.
How do I know if I have a Candida auris infection?
Most people who get serious Candida infections are already sick from other medical conditions.
C. auris is still rare in the United States. People who get invasive Candida infections are often already sick from other medical conditions, so it can be difficult to know if you have a C. auris infection. The most common symptoms of invasive Candida infection are fever and chills that don’t improve after antibiotic treatment for a suspected bacterial infection. Only a laboratory test can diagnose C. auris infection. Talk to your healthcare provider if you believe you have a fungal or healthcare-associated infection.
Stopping the spread of Candida auris
CDC is working with public health partners, healthcare personnel, and laboratories to stop the spread of C. auris in healthcare settings. Here’s how CDC is asking everyone to help:
Family members and other close contacts of patients with C. auris
Clean your hands with hand sanitizer or soap and water before and after touching a patient with C. auris or equipment in his or her room.
Remind healthcare personnel to clean their hands.
Laboratory staff, healthcare personnel, and public health officials
Know when to suspect C. auris and how to properly identify it.
Report cases quickly to public health departments.
For healthcare personnel, clean hands correctly and use precautions like wearing gowns and gloves to prevent spread.
Clean patient rooms thoroughly with a disinfectant that works against C. auris.
Investigate C. auris cases quickly and determine additional ways to prevent spread.
See Recommendations for Identification, Treatment, and Infection Prevention and control of Candida auris.
Scientists are still learning about Candida auris
CDC and public health partners are working hard to better understand C. auris and answer the following questions so that we can continue to help protect people from this serious infection:
Why is C. auris resistant to antifungal medicines?
Why did C. auris start causing infections in recent years?
Where did C. auris originally come from, and why has it appeared in many regions of the world at the same time?
What is CDC doing?
CDC is collaborating closely with partners to better respond, contain spread, and prevent future infections by:
Advising healthcare personnel and infection control staff on ways to stop the spread of C. auris and continually updating this guidance as we learn more about the infection.
Working with state and local health agencies, healthcare facilities, and clinical microbiology laboratories to ensure that laboratories are using proper methods to detect C. auris.
Testing C. auris strains to monitor for resistance to antifungal medicines.
Examining the DNA of C. auris strains using whole genome sequencing to better understand how this germ is spreading in the United States and around the world.
Working with public health partners in the United States and internationally to learn more about how C. auris spreads in healthcare facilities and to eliminate it from those facilities.
Candida is a yeast like fungus....
Guard the BEER..
“Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr. Scott Lorin, “The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.”
In 2015, Dr. Johanna Rhodes, an infectious disease expert at Imperial College London, got a panicked call from the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. C. auris had taken root there, and the hospital couldn’t clear it.
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MRSA, you pathetic wimp, look and see what a REAL intractable pathogen looks like.
Get ready, folks!
“Give me your infected, your diseased,
Your huddled masses struggling to breathe,
The wretched criminals of our open borders.
Send these, the freeloaders, drug-dealers, to us:
I lift my leg on congresses door.”
Identification of Candida auris
Detailed algorithms for when to suspect C. auris based on identification methods.
[PDF - 9 pages]
https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/candidiasis/pdf/Testing-algorithm-by-Method-temp.pdf
Obola and his treasonous Congress have imported
murderers, rapists, disease to murder America
and its people.
THEY STILL ARE DOING IT.
“Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr. Scott Lorin, “The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.”
Kill it with fire.
L
[[Tests showed it was everywhere in his room... so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.
“Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr. Scott Lorin, “The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.” ]]
How about the people that worked on him? Entered his room? They must have spread it everywhere after leaving room?
instead of placing blame for the spread of disease where it belongs (the open borders caucus), they instead use a scape goat, the anti-vaxers. Which is nothing but a means of deflecting incoming blame on a nonexistent cause.
Virtually any competent microbiologist could perform a series of experiments in rather short order to determine whether this hypothesis has merit or not.
Drop Trou,
Pinch a Deuce,
The most important ingredient in brewing was the last one discovered, because yeast is a single-celled organism that is invisible to the naked eye. Still, brewers have long known that some unseen agent turned a sweet liquid into beer. Long ago, the action of yeast was such a blessing, yet so mysterious, that English brewers called it “Godisgood.”
[[Why is C. auris resistant to antifungal medicines?]]
But not resistant to common disinfectants and hand soaps and anti-bacterial hand sanitizers?
1Thess4 ,
Thanks.
I’ve always thought they should clean hospital wings by irradiating them.
There is no mystery or secrecy. C. auris has been well reported among the U.S. health care industry, and watched by the CDC for several years now.
And there is no secrecy about C. auris or the over prescription and over use of antibacterial and antifungal medications which has contributed to multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria and fungi that are dangerous to humans. It has been an ongoing process to curb that abuse for years now, and doctors and pharmacists have been stepping up those efforts.
The report headline is a scare tactic for click bait at MSN.
And, by the way, why did you indicate that the source was The New York Times when it wasn’t. Was that just your own click bait tactic?
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