Superbug Fungus Spreads in two U.S. Cities

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U.S. health officials said Thursday they now have evidence of an untreatable fungus spreading in two hospitals and a nursing home.

The “superbug” outbreaks were reported in a Washington, D.C, nursing home and at two Dallas-area hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. A handful of the patients had invasive fungal infections that were impervious to all three major classes of medications.

“This is really the first time we’ve started seeing clustering of resistance” in which patients seemed to be getting the infections from each other, said the CDC’s Dr. Meghan Lyman.

The fungus, Candida auris, is a harmful form of yeast that is is most deadly when it enters the bloodstream, heart or brain.

In Washington, D.C., a cluster of 101 C. auris cases at a nursing home dedicated to very sick patients included three that were resistant to all three kinds of antifungal medications. A cluster of 22 in two Dallas-area hospitals included two with that level of resistance. The facilities weren’t identified.

Those cases were seen from January to April. Of the five people who were fully resistant to treatment, three died — both Texas patients and one in Washington.

Investigators reviewed medical records and found no evidence of previous antifungal use among the patients in those clusters. Health officials say that means they spread from person to person.

 

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Reminder that all of these newly reported diseases(hantavirus, bubonic plague, monkeypox etc.) are not new and most likely don't pose any significant danger. We are just hyperaware of these kind of news now.

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1 minute ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Reminder that all of these newly reported diseases(hantavirus, bubonic plague, monkeypox etc.) are not new and most likely don't pose any significant danger. We are just hyperaware of these kind of news now.

While this fungus is not new, this is the first time it has spread between people. It is also resistant to all medications. 

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Please no, Covid is still not over. We can't take it right now with all the **** that's already going on in the world.

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Another day, another GGD thread telling us about a new outbreak I never would've heard about otherwise 

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8 minutes ago, Quark said:

While this fungus is not new, this is the first time it has spread between people. It is also resistant to all medications. 

The fungus has always spread person to person. This is the first time a link of more people infected with a drugs-resistent strain could have been identified.

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The Last of Us series is really in production I guess.

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19 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

The fungus has always spread person to person. This is the first time a link of more people infected with a drugs-resistent strain could have been identified.

Yes. It sounds like in the past the fungus gained resistance during medical treatment but in this case the drug resistant fungus spread without any previous antifungul treatment.