Candida auris, a deadly fungal infection, is spreading at an 'alarming rate' in long-term health facilities, according to the CDC. Here's what we know about the lethal 'superbug yeast.' (From 2018)
. It’s been on the radar of epidemiologists only since 2009, but it’s grown into a potent microbial threat, found inthus far. Science can’t yet say where it came from or how to control its spread, and hospitals are being forced back into old hygiene practices—putting patients into isolation, swabbing rooms with bleach—to try to control it.
The center of the emerging problem is that this yeast isn’t behaving like a yeast. Normally, yeast hangs out in warm, damp spaces in the body, and surges out of that niche only when its local ecosystem veers out of balance. That’s what happens in vaginal yeast infections, for instance, and also in infections that bloom in the mouth and throat or bloodstream when the immune system breaks down.
The accepted narrative of new diseases is that they always take us by surprise: Science recognizes it after it has begun to move, with the second patient or the tenth or the hundredth, and works its way back to find Patient Zero. Butwas flagged as troublesome from its first discovery, though its identifiers didn’t understand at the time what it might be able to do.begins in 2009
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