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Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial. Regards to all.
The issue is that the fungus has entered their bloodstream.
Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We've had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this fungal infection. You don't need to tear down hospital rooms after an HIV patient spent time in it.
Antifungal resistant fungal infections are common in the Cystic Fibrosis community. I haven't participated for several years on any CF lists, but I used to be on several. I checked my old emails. There is zero mention of candida auris. This appears to be fairly new and becoming very serious, from what I gather. (Updated to say "antifungal.")
Did anybody tried to apply blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction? Just curious, sharing as it is our sub tropical Assam-Burma jungle traditional remedy for anything and everything fungal infection since time immemorial. Regards to all.
The issue is that the fungus has entered their bloodstream.
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Antifungal resistant fungal infections are common in the Cystic Fibrosis community. I haven't participated for several years on any CF lists, but I used to be on several. I checked my old emails. There is zero mention of candida auris. This appears to be fairly new and becoming very serious, from what I gather. (Updated to say "antifungal.")
Pedant: All fungal infections are antibiotic-resistant, because antibiotics kill bacteria. Antifungal-resistant fungi have long been a problem for anyone who spends time in hospitals, though.
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The cases are accelerating, and the information is actively being suppressed from the public (for what they see as good reasons, I guess). Something tells me that candida auris will change the way hospitals are built and maintained.
>The cases are accelerating, and the information is actively being suppressed from the public (for what they see as good reasons, I guess). Do you have any sources for these claims or is this tinfoil-hattery? What would be these "good reasons" for suppressing information? And if the information is unavailable, how do you know that "the cases are accelerating"?
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Antifungal resistant fungal infections are common in the Cystic Fibrosis community. I haven't participated for several years on any CF lists, but I used to be on several. I checked my old emails. There is zero mention of candida auris. This appears to be fairly new and becoming very serious, from what I gather. (Updated to say "antifungal.")
Pedant: All fungal infections are antibiotic-resistant, because antibiotics kill bacteria. Antifungal-resistant fungi have long been a problem for anyone who spends time in hospitals, though.
> a substance produced by or a semisynthetic (see semisynthetic sense 1) substance derived from a microorganism and able in dilute solution to inhibit or kill another microorganism
Bacteria and fungi are microorganisms, so antibacterial and antifungal agents are all antibiotics.
Edit: OK, upon reflection, some fungi are microorganisms. Others form filaments. Candida spp. can do either, depending on growth conditions. I'm not sure about Candida auris. There are references to colonies on growth media, but that doesn't necessarily mean filaments.
Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We've had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this fungal infection. You don't need to tear down hospital rooms after an HIV patient spent time in it.
The cases are accelerating, and the information is actively being suppressed from the public (for what they see as good reasons, I guess). Something tells me that candida auris will change the way hospitals are built and maintained.
It's about malpractice, I'm sure.
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>The cases are accelerating, and the information is actively being suppressed from the public (for what they see as good reasons, I guess). Do you have any sources for these claims or is this tinfoil-hattery? What would be these "good reasons" for suppressing information? And if the information is unavailable, how do you know that "the cases are accelerating"?
The linked articles explicitly say that hospitals are not publicizing the infections because they want to avoid panic. Previously rare fungal infection showing up in five hospitals is a pretty significant uptick. The fact that it’s extraordinarily hard to eradicate is notable as well. One of the linked articles mentioned having to tear out ceiling tiles and flooring to get at it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The cases are accelerating, and the information is actively being suppressed from the public (for what they see as good reasons, I guess). Something tells me that candida auris will change the way hospitals are built and maintained.
>The cases are accelerating, and the information is actively being suppressed from the public (for what they see as good reasons, I guess). Do you have any sources for these claims or is this tinfoil-hattery? What would be these "good reasons" for suppressing information? And if the information is unavailable, how do you know that "the cases are accelerating"?
In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent out an urgent public alert about a deadly bacteria, resistant to virtually every known antibiotic, that sickened more than a dozen Americans who had elective surgery at Grand View Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.
But when similar outbreaks take place at hospitals on American soil, the C.D.C. makes no such public announcement. That is because under its agreement with states, the C.D.C. is barred from publicly identifying hospitals that are battling to contain the spread of dangerous pathogens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/health/candida-auris-hosp...