fungus

It is invasive, hard to diagnose, often antibiotic resistant and lives and breeds in hospitals and long term care facilties.

It is a fungus in the yeast family known as C-auris...and its now making its way into our state.

Wake Med in addition says they are using Special Enteric Precautions as well as UV light to prevent infection and target hard-to-kill pathogens alongside our existing, extensive infection prevention measures and hospital-grade cleaning protocols and safeguards. Our lab can also ID C. auris on clinical culture.

LL NC DHHS sent a memo to hospitals and long term care facilities alerting them that a rapidly spreading often drug resistant fungus had made its way into our state

It is called Candida auris, an emerging fungus that nearly doubled in 2021 according to the CDC

dr weber sot :46 its spreading, has spread to all the continents and numbers are increasing

TAKE GRX Its now been detected in our state : 5 cases found so far , the cdc calls the threat level urgent.... It was first found in 2009 in Asia and -90 percent of cases is resistant to at least 1 anti-fungal

sot; 52 patients who get it on the skin it can stay on for weeks and months

drdavid weber with unc medical center says hospitals and long term care facilities need to be very aware of this invasive fungus. Most patients are elderly with weakened immune systems.

216 it gets transmitted from person to person by direct contact touch or indirectly say in hands of health care providers

He says UNC hospitals is taking preventative steps, by disinfecting rooms, proper hand washing and other procedures.  Wake Med tells me they are using UV lights to prevent infection and target hard-to-kill pathogens as well as other measures. All imperative says Weber.

:55 if it gains entrance in the body say the blood it has a high mortality 50 percent or more.

ll Tag: the cdc says 4 strains of the c aurisfungis are in the us and likely introduced thru international travel, Chelsea donovan wral news raleigh

C auris is now in half of the states in the US.