A deadly infection, immune to drugs, secretly sweeps the globe

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In 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 past 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.

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.

With bacteria and fungi alike, hospitals and local governments are reluctant to disclose outbreaks for fear of being seen as infection hubs. Even the CDC, under its agreement with states, is not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks. State governments have in many cases declined to publicly share information beyond acknowledging that they have had cases.

Regarding another incident of it in the UK, a hospital spokesman said: “There was no need to put out a news release during the outbreak,” said Oliver Wilkinson, a spokesman for the hospital.

This hushed panic is playing out in hospitals around the world. Individual institutions and national, state and local governments have been reluctant to publicize outbreaks of resistant infections, arguing there is no point in scaring patients — or prospective ones.

So warning people of potential risks is bad for business so they don’t do it! Yet another case of no informed consent!

This is one reason I try to keep my immune system in tip top condition. One never knows to what one will be exposed. If vaccines weaken the immune system, (which they do according to independent scientific study) I don’t want any part of them! If you’d like to do something as easy as adding a dessert spoon of powder to your juice or smoothie, check out https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Nutri-Blast-Immune-Blend.html

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fungus-Immune-to-Drugs-Secretly-Sweeps-the-Globe-13746968.php

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