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Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Is 'Quietly Spreading Across the Globe' (msn.com)
A drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris "is quietly spreading across the globe," reports the New York Times:
Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa. Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to add it to a list of germs deemed "urgent threats...."
In the United States, two million people contract resistant infections annually, and 23,000 die from them, according to the official CDC estimate. That number was based on 2010 figures; more recent estimates from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine put the death toll at 162,000. Worldwide fatalities from resistant infections are estimated at 700,000.... With bacteria and fungi alike, hospitals and local governments are reluctant to disclose outbreaks for fear of being seen as infection hubs.
Even the CDC, under its agreement with states, is not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks. State governments have in many cases declined to publicly share information beyond acknowledging that they have had cases.... [A] hushed panic is playing out in hospitals around the world. Individual institutions and national, state and local governments have been reluctant to publicize outbreaks of resistant infections, arguing there is no point in scaring patients -- or prospective ones.
The Times reports that C. auris targets people with weakened immune systems (including babies and the elderly) -- and that 587 cases of C. auris have already been reported in the U.S., according to the CDC: 309 cases in New York, 104 in New Jersey, and 144 in Illinois. The CDC adds that half the patients who contract C. auris die within 90 days.
It also survived in a room treated for an entire week with aerosolized hydrogen peroxide, according to the Times. "Simply put, fungi, just like bacteria, are evolving defenses to survive modern medicines."
The New York Post adds that "Given the speed at which the inspection spreads, coupled with its resistance to medication, 'the prospect of an endemic or epidemic multidrug-resistant yeast in U.S. healthcare facilities is troubling,' the CDC said in October."
In the United States, two million people contract resistant infections annually, and 23,000 die from them, according to the official CDC estimate. That number was based on 2010 figures; more recent estimates from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine put the death toll at 162,000. Worldwide fatalities from resistant infections are estimated at 700,000.... With bacteria and fungi alike, hospitals and local governments are reluctant to disclose outbreaks for fear of being seen as infection hubs.
Even the CDC, under its agreement with states, is not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks. State governments have in many cases declined to publicly share information beyond acknowledging that they have had cases.... [A] hushed panic is playing out in hospitals around the world. Individual institutions and national, state and local governments have been reluctant to publicize outbreaks of resistant infections, arguing there is no point in scaring patients -- or prospective ones.
The Times reports that C. auris targets people with weakened immune systems (including babies and the elderly) -- and that 587 cases of C. auris have already been reported in the U.S., according to the CDC: 309 cases in New York, 104 in New Jersey, and 144 in Illinois. The CDC adds that half the patients who contract C. auris die within 90 days.
It also survived in a room treated for an entire week with aerosolized hydrogen peroxide, according to the Times. "Simply put, fungi, just like bacteria, are evolving defenses to survive modern medicines."
The New York Post adds that "Given the speed at which the inspection spreads, coupled with its resistance to medication, 'the prospect of an endemic or epidemic multidrug-resistant yeast in U.S. healthcare facilities is troubling,' the CDC said in October."
Maybe we should focus on improving our immune systems by eating healthier and cleaner (read, organic, grass-fed, and definitely non-GMO), avoiding foods we are intolerant of (i.e., ones we're allergic to, test required) and by using vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and herbs instead of barely tested drugs, antibiotics, vaccines, and procedures of questionable effectiveness. Our bodies are made to heal themselves with the right support. You can't have a deficiency of a drug, which likely will give you a nutrient deficiency along with whatever it does or doesn't do. There are also powerful herbs that our bodies have evolved to be symbiotic with and that don't create superbugs but that have both positive effects on our bodies and negative effects on our parasites. There are reams of information and research on herbs and nutrients that provide highly effective methods of prevention and cure for all manner of diseases, even some of the ones caused by modern industry (e.g., insecticides, herbicides, pervasive radiation), but that information is ridiculed, suppressed, and even outlawed in some cases because it comes from nature and can't be patented. Do your own research and don't be intimidated by the medical and pharmaceutical monopolies.
You stupid imbeciles have joined the NATO. Now you have to accommodate sand n1ggers with all their diseases.
Keep it up, you retards, until sand n1ggers take over.
You and your "science".
People like you think you know better than us. Meanwhile you try to get us to believe the earth is a marble floating in space not tied to anything, and yet somehow the water doesn't fall off he bottom.
You say "gravity" when no one can explain what it is or how much gravity would fit in a bag. Then you say "math", like that means anything.
Math, like science, is bullshit the leftist atheist liberal Muslims are trying to gay conversion force on us. I can prove it:
3 is bigger than 2.
No matter how many two foot tall things you have, a three foot tall thing is always bigger. Think of a 7' tall NBA basketball player standing in a kindergarten. No matter how many kindergarteners you have, the NBA guy is going to be the tallest in the room. The biggest.
7>3 if you have one kid
7>3â30 if you have thirty kids.
So your so called math say 7>3 and 7>90
903
It's bullshit, all the way down.
That's why the earth can't be a marble. If it was round, when an orange fell off a tree, it would roll off the bottom and fall into space.
Oranges do fall off trees.
I have never seen an orange roll off the bottom of the earth and into space.
QED the earth is flat.
Math away that, bitches.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a country to run.
#ThinkOfTheOranges
Drug resistant bacteria and fungus
Climate change
Artificial intelligence
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear meltdowns
Identity theft
The list goes on. For every horseman of the apocalypse science has promised to slay, it instead created a whole new one.