A dangerous fungus that spreads among the US healthcare systems has not slowed down, reports claim.
New research has found that Candida Auris (C. Auris) has spread rapidly in hospitals since it was first reported in 2016.
In March 2023, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported more than 4,000 new clinical cases of C. Auris, calling it a “urgent antimicrobial (AR) threat.
Fungi can be resistant to numerous antifungal drugs and can cause “life -threatening illness”.
C. Auris “easily spreads” to health care facilities and mainly affects people who are already sick, the CDC stated on its website.
A new study published in the American Gazette of Infection Control on March 17 analyzed C. Auris clinical crops across the US collected from 2019 to 2023.
The number of clinical crops increased by 580% from 2019 to 2020, with 251% in 2021, with 46% in 2022, and 7% in 2023.
“The volumes of clinical crops with C. Auris have increased rapidly, accompanied by an expansion in the sources of infection,” the researchers, mainly from the University of Miami, concluded.
Joanna Wagner with the George’s Department of Public Health shared with the local ABC News WJCL associate who George, one of the influential countries, has discovered more than 1,300 cases since the end of February.
“Many of the disinfectants who are registered in EPA and are historically used by hospitals and medical facilities are not effective against C. Auris,” Wagner said.
Dr. Marc Siegel, senior medical analyst Fox News and Clinical Professor of Medicine in NYU Langone, considers C. Auris a “problem in developing great concern,” he told Fox News Digital.
“It is resistant to numerous antifungal drugs, and tends to spread to hospital environments, including equipment used in immunocompromis patients and semi -immunocompromized, such as ventilators and catheters,” he said.
“Unfortunately, symptoms such as fever, chills and pain can be ubiquitous and may be mistaken for other infections.”
“Great research” is continuing to develop new treatments, according to Siegel.
“This is part of a much bigger problem of developing antibiotic resistance in the US and around the world,” the doctor warned.
“At the same time, measures of sterilization and disinfection in hospitals can be very useful.”
Georgia health care facilities are reported to use certified cleaners from the SH.BA Environmental Protection Agency designed to attack the fungus.
Although C. Auris can cause severe infections with a high degree of death in sick individuals, it is not “a threat to healthy people”, according to CDC.
Fox News Digital arrived at the author of the main study and the Department of Public Health of George for comment.
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