A deadly and highly-drug resistant fungus from the yeast strain known as Candida auris is spreading at “an alarming rate” in long-term care hospitals and health facilities caring for very sick people, tripling nationally from 476 in 2019 to 1,471 in 2021.
pandemic exacerbated those challenges as health care workers scrambled with limited resources to contain the respiratory spread of that virus and to keep up with a flood of patients.in the United States in 2016. The fungus is considered a serious global public health threat because it is resistant to different classes of antifungal drugs.
the states, with 17 states identifying their first case between 2019 and 2021. Most spread has occurred in long-term acute care hospitals and skilled-nursing facilities, where patients are more likely to be on ventilators, the CDC says. Case counts are likely an underestimate because screening requires specialized equipment and is conducted unevenly across the United States.can cause fatal infections in the bloodstream, heart and brain.
The emergence of the fungus, detected more than a decade ago in India, South Africa and South America, has perplexed researchers.Candida“This is how climate change or global warming can bring diseases because those in the environment have to adapt to survive and then have the capacity to survive in humans,” said Arturo Casadevall, a microbiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who has studied the fungus.
often overshadowed by viruses and bacteria as the pathogens gripping public attention. Despite its deadly potential, the CDC says the spread ofhand hygiene and deep cleaning with theLyman offered further reassurance: “We are glad to report it does not cause people to turn into zombies.”
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