Frightening Drug-Resistant Infection Cropping Up Around The World
Daily Wire,
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Ashe Schow
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Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/7/2019 5:59:59 AM
Across the world, a new drug-resistant infection has appeared. The New York Times reported Saturday morning that an elderly man was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital’s branch in Brooklyn for abdominal surgery. After getting his blood tested, it was revealed that he was infected with Candida auris, a fungus that was recently discovered but has been identified in patients around the world. The fungus is most deadly to those with already weak immune systems. The elderly man, who was not named by the Times, was isolated in the intensive care unit, but died 90 days later. What makes his case
We are going to see a lot of illnesses we haven´t see before.
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The spread of Islam and the spread of disease... Coincidence?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/7/2019 6:48:21 AM (No. 25994)
A poorly written article that fails to back up the fear it attempts to prompt with relevant info. Was the elderly man in the same ICU room for 90 days? If so, would fungal, bacterial or viral migration to all objects in his room be unexpected? Was a poorly trained staff responsible for the highly septic condition of the room? What symptoms does candida auras cause?Was the patient coughing? Did any caretakers become ill? How long has this fungus been found in patients? It appears to be an opportunistic infection of the already ill so is it or underlying conditions the cause of death in sufferers? Specifically how old was the patient referenced in the article and how old on average were other victims of this fungus? Before we become terrified and boil our houses and everything in them every single day perhaps the author would care to do his job and inform before wasting his and our time with click-bait.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 4/7/2019 7:52:12 AM (No. 26001)
They have a cure but the side effects are worse than the initial disease....once again.
The current state of the world makes it much easier for reasonable, thinking, conservatives to make peace with their mortality, be nice to everyone and be ready to "Go" when one´s time is up.
I´m way old, healthy as a horse, and still have a "DNR" stipulation.
Let the loony lefties have the world they are in the process of destroying.
...back in ´55 we were makin´ Thunderbirds !
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 4/7/2019 9:27:29 AM (No. 26000)
Your response, #3, represents only the tip of the iceberg of what´s wrong, missing and/or misleading in this article. Swab anywhere and you will find infective agents like but not limited to E. Coli, Strep. Ag, Staph. Aureus, yeasts and other fungi.
Immuno-compromised individuals succumb to all manner of infections that healthy people shrug off. And antibiotics, whose overuse is a legitimate issue, do not work on viruses or fungi.
This is just a start but it´s nice to know that Chicken Little is still alive and well and running around issuing his dire warnings.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 4/7/2019 9:32:29 AM (No. 26005)
The person who would have been able to create a cure was killed in an abortion in the 70´s.
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jorgecito 4/7/2019 9:33:30 AM (No. 26003)
#3, the strains of Candida auris in question were determined to have come from Asia and South America.
Article said this was determined by DNA testing.
Yes, as with many other superbugs, the immunosuppressed and very young/very old are more susceptible.
What I found most disturbing was the officially imposed secrecy. Reason given for the secrecy:
"We didn´t want people to panic, and there´s nothing patients can do about it anyway."
That is not true: There IS something patients can do about it. Patients can choose a different hospital.
This applies to me. I regularly visit one of the NYC hospitals where Candida auris has been a serious problem. Until now, I was unaware of this. Fortunately, I haven´t had to undergo any invasive procedures there (yet).
When I do get to the point of having an invasive procedure, you can be sure I will take into account the presence of Candida auris in that hospital. And I think it is the right of every patient to know.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
starboard 4/7/2019 11:01:09 AM (No. 25995)
This Candida fungus is basically a pesky yeast infection that is hard to get rid of.
I have a friend who went on an African safari in June last year and came home with a Candida fungus infection that lodged in the peritoneum sack around her heart. She´s been on a medication to kill it off ever since. However, these parasites are like weeds, they come back again and again and many doctors are not savvy in diagnosing or treating them. They will try different antibiotics and steroid drugs hoping to get results and in the process are weakening your immune system.
I expect with the influx of immigrants to this country we´ll see more and more diseases like this. Some of the best breeding grounds are hospitals. Take caution and stay away from foreign agents and places.
Thank you for this immorality Nancy Pelosi. They should name a fungus or bacterial strain after her. Candida Pelosi a pesky fungus that won´t go away has a nice ring to it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/7/2019 11:07:47 AM (No. 25999)
What #8 said.
Read the NYT article linked, which gives far more information. Remember too that these are news reporters, and what they write are not scientific papers. Those interested in more information can move on into searching the internet for it. It will be out there.
From the NYT article:
The C.D.C. investigators theorized that C. auris started in Asia and spread across the globe. But when the agency compared the entire genome of auris samples from India and Pakistan, Venezuela, South Africa and Japan, it found that its origin was not a single place, and there was not a single auris strain.
It is indeed mysterious at this point.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/7/2019 11:17:14 AM (No. 25997)
A quick search brought this up - from the American Society for Microbiology:
Candida auris: a Review of the Literature
https://cmr.asm.org/content/31/1/e00029-17
Its intro:
The emerging pathogen Candida auris has been associated with nosocomial outbreaks on five continents. Genetic analysis indicates the simultaneous emergence of separate clades of this organism in different geographical locations. Invasive infection and colonization have been detected predominantly in patients in high-dependency settings and have garnered attention due to variable antifungal resistance profiles and transmission within units instituting a range of infection prevention and control measures. Issues with the identification of C. auris using both phenotypic and molecular techniques have raised concerns about detecting the true scale of the problem. This review considers the literature available on C. auris and highlights the key unknowns, which will provide direction for further work in this field.
Those interested should read this.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 4/7/2019 12:21:45 PM (No. 26004)
An old college friend who has been a cellualar biology researcher and professor for over 30 years warned me 15 years ago that there were diseases coming that would be very bad. He said that many obscure pathogens had been isolated by poor transportation, and the time necessary to travel to the USA from 3rd world hellholes in decades past, but now our open borders and rapid travel from almost anywhere to the USA was going to bring them here, and it would be very dangerous.
This new, drug resistant fungus is a perfect example.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MeiDei 4/7/2019 2:30:43 PM (No. 25998)
Using mostly antibiotic products in the house (soap, cleaning supplies, shampoo, etc.) caused one highly respected NYC doctor to go on every TV show he could several years ago to ask - no, he used BEG - people to discontinue their use. Hospitals were experiencing a new & contagious bacterial infection that was fatal to children & the elderly in high numbers. He said we were overly concerned with cleanliness and therefore had lost our tolerance of most germs, putting ourselves at risk. If you think back to your childhood & what we all got into, and survived easily, this makes sense. The good doctor said regular soap & water was all that was needed to keep things in balance.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/7/2019 3:30:10 PM (No. 26007)
#13, my cellular biologist friend, an imminently practical, yet very smart professor has told me, similar to your doctor´s comment, that probably the greatest breakthrough in history was cheap, available soap for washing your hands and things.
It will destroy bacteria very effectively, and since it does it by breaking down the lipids holding the cell walls together, it is not something that they can develop resistance to.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/8/2019 2:05:47 PM (No. 26002)
The filthy animals, known as democrats are to blame for this. Their moral compass, if they ever had one, is completely off axis.
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