An article popped with "concerns" about this fungus.
Quote:
Deadly germs, Lost cures, A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy. The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, April 6, 2019
Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit.
The germ, a fungus called Candida auris, preys on people with weakened immune systems, and it is quietly spreading across the globe. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.
Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.”
The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/h...GnjBOiqDRjaWX0
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Two points that seem a little strange:
- lack of awareness across the board
- case tracking pattern
Awareness:
Mayo Clinic Study Implicates Fungus As Cause Of Chronic Sinusitis, Date: September 10, 1999
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0910080344.htm
Tracking:
This CDC map looks a little like a BLUE state map (no comedy intended). Seems in infer that sanctuary area(s) are somehow complacent or at least harbor source pathogen carriers?
https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-a...g-c-auris.html
ref: CDC datasheet
https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-a...quNV-zUYYf8-Xs
Question, Do the 18D's have operational awareness/training and have you seen cases OCONUS?
