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PermalinkHospitals in the Las Vegas valley continue to combat infections
tied to Candida auris — a fungus on the short list of highly
drug-resistant “superbugs” monitored by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
And an update posted Monday, Dec. 9 by the CDC indicates
about 13% of clinical infections from the fungus last year
occurred in Nevada health care facilities.
. . .
I looked into this bug - and it's BAD.
Fungal-type infections are especially hard to
deal with even under good circumstances - but
THIS one is almost/(totally?) resistant to all
the current drugs. It'll eat you up.
Frankly, at this point we need MORE than just
'Big Pharma' - which is always profit-oriented.
Super-bugs require a govt-sponsored 'Manhatten
Project' of their own. Antibiotics, the old
Wonder Drugs, are rapidly fading away. Need
stuff completely new and different.
Bacteria and fungi are evolutionary 'smart' -
always so many sub-variants. At least one will
be resistant to pretty much anything. That's
why they've lasted 4 billion years while so
much else has died away.
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