Forget Ebola, New Deadly Disease Spreading across Globe

Ebola Virus Disease is a rare and deadly disease most commonly affecting people and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). It is caused by an infection with a group of viruses within the genus Ebolavirus:

However just recently, a secret disease has been slowly killing people and is said to be mysterious.

Candida auris is a drug-resistant fungus that has emerged mysteriously around the world, and it is understood to be a clear and present danger.

Candida auris, which preys on people with weakened immune systems, is deadly.

The fungus was seen in the U.S. for the first time in 2013. Dr. Lynn Sosa, Connecticut’s deputy state epidemiologist, told The New York Times that she views she views Candida auris as “pretty much unbeatable and difficult to identify.”

As of the end of February, a total of 587 cases had been confirmed across the USA. According to the CDC, symptoms of the fungus may be difficult to detect because patients are often already sick and only a lab test can identify the superbug.

Candida auris can cause different types of infections, including bloodstream infection, wound infection, and ear infection.

Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical centre 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.

The next bad kid in the block to look for: Candida auris. Important to all specialties who deal with infection, which means all of them. Ok, maybe not Psychiatry. #CIS2019 #CISinAtlanta pic.twitter.com/4gzyokbPLG— Joao Pedro Lopes, MD (@JPLopesMD) April 6, 2019

“Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr Scott Lorin, the hospital’s president.

C. auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major anti-fungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.

For decades, public health experts have warned that the overuse of antibiotics was reducing the effectiveness of drugs that have lengthened lifespans by curing bacterial infections once commonly fatal.

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Scientists say that unless more effective new medicines are developed and unnecessary use of antimicrobial drugs is sharply curbed, risk will spread to healthier populations.

A study the British government funded projects that if policies are not put in place to slow the rise of drug resistance, 10 million people could die worldwide of all such infections in 2050, eclipsing the eight million expected to die that year from cancer.

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