What about the ATTICS!?Does it spead easily through parent's basements? Because I think most of us are pretty safe
Yeaaaaaah was reading about this yesterday. That case where they found the fungus all over the room after quarantining it is nightmareish
Heres the CDC page:
https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/candida-auris-qanda.html
And here are the current Maps Comrade Doggo Sparky if you want to add to OP:
The problem is that it is unlikely to stay confined to the U.S.You know what with the current state of the u.s bring it the fuck on and end this shit.
Why is Candida auris a problem?
- It causes serious infections. C. auris can cause bloodstream infections and even death, particularly in hospital and nursing home patients with serious medical problems. More than 1 in 3 patients with invasive C. auris infection (for example, an infection that affects the blood, heart, or brain) die.
- It's often resistant to medicines. Antifungal medicines commonly used to treat Candida infections often don't work for Candida auris. Some C. auris infections have been resistant to all three types of antifungal medicines.
- It's becoming more common. Although C. auris was just discovered in 2009, it has spread quickly and caused infections in more than a dozen countries.
- It's difficult to identify. C. auris can be misidentified as other types of fungi unless specialized laboratory technology is used. This misidentification might lead to a patient getting the wrong treatment.
- It can spread in hospitals and nursing homes. C. auris has caused outbreaks in healthcare facilities and can spread through contact with affected patients and contaminated surfaces or equipment. Good hand hygiene and cleaning in healthcare facilities is important because C. auris can live on surfaces for several weeks.
Geographical differentiation
The phylogenetics of C. auris suggest distinct genotypes exist in different geographical regions with substantial genomic diversity.[12] A variety of sequence-based analytical methods have been used to support this finding.
Whole genome sequencing and analyses of isolates from Pakistan, India, South Africa, Venezuela, Japan, and previously sequenced C. auris genomes deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Sequence Read Archive [13] identified a distinct geographic distribution of genotypes.[7] Four distinct clades separated by tens of thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms were identified.[7] The distribution of these clades segregated geographically to South Asia (India and Pakistan), South Africa, Venezuela, and Japan with minimal observed intraregion genetic diversity.[7]
Amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis of C. auris isolates from the United Kingdom, India, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, and Venezuela suggested that the London isolates formed a distinct cluster compared to the others.[14]
Comparison of ribosomal DNA sequences of C. auris isolates from Israel, Asia, South Africa, and Kuwait found that the strains from Israel were phylogenetically distinct from those from the other regions.[15] Chatterjee et al. wrote in 2015, "Its actual global distribution remains obscure as the current commercial methods of clinical diagnosis misidentify it as C. haemulonii."[5]
C. auris can cause invasive candidiasis (fungemia) in which the bloodstream, the central nervous system, and internal organs are infected. It has recently attracted increased attention because of its multiple drug resistance. Treatment is also complicated because it is easily misidentified as other Candida species.
Why haven't people heard about this?
The rise of C. auris has been little publicized in part because it is so new. But also, outbreaks have at times been played down or kept confidential by hospitals, doctors, even governments. Some hospitals and medical professionals argue that because precautions are taken to prevent the spread, publicizing an outbreak would scare people unnecessarily.
Welp. Better hope i dont get a flu or surgery or anything that taxes my immune system in the next few years until they get a proper anti-fungal against this thing.
The C. auris genome was found to encode several genes for the ABC transporter family, a major facilitator superfamily, which helps to explain its multiple drug resistance.[5] Its genome also encodes virulence-related gene families such as lipases, oligopeptide transporters, mannosyl transferases and transcription factors which facilitate colonization, invasion, and iron acquisition.[5] Another factor contributing to antifungal resistance is the presence of a set of genes known to be involved in biofilm formation.[5]
Can I do anything to protect myself?
The symptoms of C. auris — fever, aches, fatigue — are not unusual, so it is hard to recognize the infection without testing. The good news is that the threat of becoming sick with C. auris is very low for healthy people going about their daily lives. If you or a loved one is in a hospital or nursing home, you can ask if there have been cases of Candida auris there. If so, it is reasonable to request that proper "infection control" precautions are taken.
Candida auris (also called C. auris) is a fungus that can cause serious infections. C. auris can spread from one patient to another in hospitals and nursing homes. Patients can carry C. auris somewhere on their body, even if it is not making them sick. This is called colonization. When people in hospitals and nursing homes are colonized, C. auris can spread from their bodies and can get on other people or nearby objects, allowing the fungus to spread to people around them.
CDC recommends testing patients who may have come in contact with C. auris to see if they are carrying this fungus. This allows healthcare providers to know who is carrying the fungus and take steps to prevent it from spreading to other people.
What should I expect if I get tested?
- The nurse or doctor will wipe or rub a cotton swab on the skin near your armpits and the area where your leg joins your body (groin). The test is not painful.
- The swab will be sent to a lab, and in 1 to 2 weeks, the lab will tell your doctor the results.
- If the test shows you are carrying the fungus, then your nurse or doctor will talk to you about the results and what to do next.
Thanks for the link and additional important info.Come on OP, at least link a Chicago news source and something with more information.
https://wgntv.com/2019/04/08/drug-resistant-superbug-warning-issued-by-cdc-100-cases-in-illinois/
I was supposed to go to my neurologist later in the morning, that's technically in part of a hospital. I just have to go through a lobby part to get to the elevator to where they are. Should I not go?
I was supposed to go to my neurologist later in the morning, that's technically in part of a hospital. I just have to go through a lobby part to get to the elevator to where they are. Should I not go?
Well, time to cancel my visit to Chicago for my cousin's wedding.
Y'all stay safe!
Yeah future generations are going to be pissed at us.As if climate change wasn't enough to be concerned with, the threat of drug-resisting bacteria AND fungus starts getting more serious. Fuck me, I wish I was born 50 years earlier. Even being black.
Literally the same thing with climate change. We knew everything 30+ years ago, yet in that timespan we've not only ignored the warnings mostly, we're polluting more than at any time in human history. Every year. Since before probably the majority of this board was alive. Oil and gas companies knew even earlier than the public too but C.R.E.A.M.
I don't know what the future will write about in regards to that time period between 1980 and the present + several years, but we define the whole cutting off the nose to spite the face thing.
Weak
Thought the "stay safe" would've been enough without the /sI just can't tell if you are serious or not.
I mean, would you really cancel a doctors appointment or even a wedding because of rare infection which basicly only affects a handful of preconditioned patients?
would are you doing during a (real) flu epidemic which is also potentially deadly? lock yourself in for 2 months straight?
The infected gets left behind. That is the new reality.My daughter has a soccer tournament in Chicago later this month. Were already dead.
Does the abuse of antibiotics that creates resistances affect antifungals at all?
Should add that it's good we just got a dem governor especially after Rauner's fuck up with sterigenics
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.htmlThere are different theories as to what happened with C. auris. Dr. Meis, the Dutch researcher, said he believed that drug-resistant fungi were developing thanks to heavy use of fungicides on crops.
Dr. Meis became intrigued by resistant fungi when he heard about the case of a 63-year-old patient in the Netherlands who died in 2005 from a fungus called Aspergillus. It proved resistant to a front-line antifungal treatment called itraconazole. That drug is a virtual copy of the azole pesticides that are used to dust crops the world over and account for more than one-third of all fungicide sales.
A 2013 paper in Plos Pathogens said that it appeared to be no coincidence that drug-resistant Aspergillus was showing up in the environment where the azole fungicides were used. The fungus appeared in 12 percent of Dutch soil samples, for example, but also in "flower beds, compost, leaves, plant seeds, soil samples of tea gardens, paddy fields, hospital surroundings, and aerial samples of hospitals."
Dr. Meis visited the C.D.C. last summer to share research and theorize that the same thing is happening with C. auris, which is also found in the soil: Azoles have created an environment so hostile that the fungi are evolving, with resistant strains surviving.
This is similar to concerns that resistant bacteria are growing because of excessive use of antibiotics in livestock for health and growth promotion. As with antibiotics in farm animals, azoles are used widely on crops.
"On everything — potatoes, beans, wheat, anything you can think of, tomatoes, onions," said Dr. Rhodes, the infectious disease specialist who worked on the London outbreak. "We are driving this with the use of antifungicides on crops."
An insidious thought crossed my mind right now- Given the innate compulsion that your 45th Twisident has for lying, what are the chances that in the near future, if this issue grows further, he openly blames "illegal immigrants, asylum seekers etc" for as "potential carriers" of this disease during one of his re-election campaign rallies?
It would not be the first time that this idea, whilst not by Trump himself, has been floated openly on mainstream news during (IIRC) 2016 as part of an interview.
Welp, I live in Illinois. Bye, everyone.
The article is pretty sparse on how this thing spreads. Do I burn all my clothes now or wait?