ASN UNTREATSBLE FUNGUS THAT REFUSES TO DIE IS NOW IN HOSPITALS IN 38 U.S. STATES
Every so often, I’m reminded that hospitals aren’t the safest places to visit. And it could be even scarier to be admitted to one. And no, I’m not talking about quality of care, more quality of scare. Because hospitals, unfortunately, are increasingly becoming Petrie dishes for some scary germs, diseases and funguses. But one fungus that’s been literally impossible to kill since 2016 now graces hospitals in a whopping 36 American states. So we’re talking 9 long years where the best and brightest haven’t figured out a way to get rid of something that’s dangerous. And why dangerous? Because the damn thing is untreatable if you get infected by it.
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CDC HAS LABELED CANDIDA AURIS A “URGENT ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE THREAT”
That’s right, untreatable. If you get it, you better hope for the best. The fungus has the designation of Candida auris. It resists all drugs thrown at it, and somehow has spread to hospitals in the majority of the United States. It even has the most alarming label the CDC has as a designation: “urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.” Urgent is an obvious word, antimicrobial resistance speaks for itself and threat means exactly what it means. But I’m stuck on untreatable, because the idea of going to a hospital is to get help for injury or sickness. Not to catch something that no one can help you get rid of.
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COULD THIS UNTREATABLE FUNGUS SOON START GRACING OTHER PLACES, LIKE SCHOOLS?
Of the 38 states where this untreatable fungus reside with impunity, the biggest cases of infection start with New York at 1,795, Illinois with 1,627 and California with 1,566. And besides refusing to die, this fungus is virtually impossible to remove from surfaces. So cleaning could literally just spread it anywhere else you touch. Maybe that explains how it’s in so many hospitals in so many places. But it’s not clear to me why we’re not hearing about it at other kinds of locations, like schools.
Maybe we will soon….
