Officials say a drug-resistant “superbug” fungus has spread among patients in hospitals and long-term care facilities in Washington, D.C., and a city in Texas and preys on those with weakened immune systems.
The clusters with the Candida auris fungus appear to be unrelated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The spread seems to be related to person-to-person transmissions, officials said.
“Candida auris is an emerging, often multidrug-resistant yeast that is highly transmissible, resulting in healthcare-associated outbreaks, especially in long-term care facilities,” the CDC said in a statement Friday. “Skin colonization with [Candida auris] allows spread and leads to invasive infections, including bloodstream infections, in 5%-10% of colonized patients.”
The CDC labeled Candida auris as a “global emerging threat” in 2017. The agency said then that it didn’t appear most cases of the fungus were spread person-to-person, which makes the new cases identified in the new study concerning among researchers.
“Each [of the current] cluster involved common health care encounters and no known previous echinocandin exposure, suggesting transmission of pan- and echinocandin-resistant strains for the first time in the United States,” the CDC noted.
There have been more than 120 cases of Candida auris identified in Washington, D.C., and and undisclosed city in Texas.
“Among 101 clinical and screening cases of [Candida auris] in D.C. during January-April 2021, three had an isolate that was pan-resistant,” the agency said.
“Among 22 clinical and screening cases of [Candida auris] in Texas during the same period, two were pan-resistant and five were resistant to both echinocandins and fluconazole.”
The CDC said clinicians should consider early antifungal susceptibility testing in patients with Candida auris infection, especially in those with treatment failure.
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The CDC says? The CDC is deep state and they are political hacks, tied to Big Pharma and Dr. Fauci’s NIAID.
Correct Madam/Sir (ladies always first). Very few health care professionals give two rats what the CDC says. Add The Who, FDA (to a lessor extent), the NEA (essentially wrote the CDC guidelines for COVID prevention in schools), and now the American Academy of Pediatrics.
I think you are missing the point here.
The point is that Nursing Homes and Hospitals have been covering up mold and fungal disease, and COVID provided the perfect cover.
Notice how this fungal stuff is coming out in the news NOW, and for 19 months we were only hearing about “a virus no one can find”?
Wake up to the reality. They lied to you and covered the truth. Now it is coming out that they used the fake virus as a “cover”, just like governments used the “virus” as a cover for their totalitarian agendas.
Did anyone ever ask if the virus was ever truly isolated?
So, now you buy the virus existence but not fungus. Nice. Their plan is working. They want you to call “chicken little” on them, “the sky is falling”, so you don’t believe anything they attach their name to. The CDC is casually letting this info out there now that they have zero liability and the medical establishment is absolved of any responsibility for this.
The people who died in nursing homes who were on ventilation died because of fungal infections from the ventilation itself. Namely, C Auris or Aspergillus.
AND where exactly DID THAT fugus get into the USA From? WAS it brought here, by some of the million_ ILLEGAL INVADERS, who’ve flooded into our nation no thanks to our traitorous government?
There’s a variant of that in DC known as the stupidity virus. Liberal politicians and administrators are especially vulnerable.
The idiocy virus known as liberalism, has no known cure, unfortunately…
I wonder where that came from, the border crossings???? We will see a lot more odd viruses now that the border is open to people from all over the world.
Hopefully it spreads through the leftist community in DC. Since they have crippled the immune systems of the vaccine recipients, they should all be highly susceptible to the infection.
i would bet good money it came from across in the border stampede / assault on america.
biden/harris are carbon copies of carter / mondale and that aint good.
No, it didn’t. Candida Auris is nothing “new”. It grows uncontrollably in hyper-sterilized environments like hospitals, where they use antibiotic cleaners and antibiotic meds like crazy. It allows for the fungus to grow without any competition from bacteria or other fungi.
You, likely, have at least 1 species of Candida in your body right now, and many people have C Auris in their bodies and it is doing no harm.
Hospitals and nursing homes have these issues because they are not nearly as “clean” as they boast, and they used the virus in 2020 to skirt accountability for these emerging problems.
Candida Auris does in fact exist. SARS-Cov-2 doesn’t.
I think you’re probably right about that border source, Cap.
I have been telling people this since last January. COVID was a cover for Nursing homes to avoid culpability and liability for the rampant fungal and mold issues they have been having for years. There have been numerous lawsuits on hundreds of nursing homes going back to 2010. Aspergillus, Candida, Stachybotris…there have been problems at these facilities and mold and fungal disease for a long time.
COVID was never the problem. The virus never existed and the CDC, FDA, and every government health agency on earth does not have a single isolated sample of it.
In the US and in Europe, these facilities used the zero-liability of COVID to “get out” of these lawsuits.
What you guys don’t see here is that you were all lied to. If you “believe in the virus”, that means you bought the con. These “deaths” by “the virus” at nursing homes were covered up fungal deaths.
The same thing is happening in India due to increased use of Glyphposate. “Black fungal infections”, and also due to the contaminated swabs used in the so-called “test”
And that’s not a picture of Candida. That’s a fake picture of a fake virus.
I really wish these news outlets would get their facts straight. This is why people think viruses are “germs”. They aren’t. They are not living things.
Yes, I think most of us can figure out that it’s a cartoon. We aren’t as stupid as you think we are and you may not be as smart as you claim to be. Lighten up.
There’s no doubt we’ve been lied to about many things and that there are coverups. We part company on the reasons.