‘Superbug’ Fungus Spread Reported In DC Area Nursing Home, CDC Says

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — U.S. wellness officials said Thursday they present person grounds of an untreatable fungus spreading successful 2 hospitals and a nursing home.

The “superbug” outbreaks were reported successful a Washington, D.C, nursing location and astatine 2 Dallas-area hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. A fistful of the patients had invasive fungal infections that were impervious to each 3 large classes of medications.

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“This is truly the archetypal clip we’ve started seeing clustering of resistance” successful which patients seemed to beryllium getting the infections from each other, said the CDC’s Dr. Meghan Lyman.

The fungus, Candida auris, is simply a harmful signifier of yeast that is considered unsafe to infirmary and nursing location patients with superior aesculapian problems. It is astir deadly erstwhile it enters the bloodstream, bosom oregon brain. Outbreaks successful wellness attraction facilities person been spurred erstwhile the fungus dispersed done diligent interaction oregon connected contaminated surfaces.

Health officials person sounded alarms for years astir the superbug aft seeing infections successful which commonly utilized drugs had small effect. In 2019, doctors diagnosed 3 cases successful New York that were besides resistant to a people of drugs, called echinocandins, that were considered a past enactment of defense.

In those cases, determination was nary grounds the infections had dispersed from diligent to diligent — scientists concluded the absorption to the drugs formed during treatment.

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The caller cases did spread, the CDC concluded.

In Washington, D.C., a clump of 101 C. auris cases astatine a nursing location dedicated to precise sick patients included 3 that were resistant to each 3 kinds of antifungal medications. A clump of 22 successful 2 Dallas-area hospitals included 2 with that level of resistance. The facilities weren’t identified.

Those cases were seen from January to April. Of the 5 radical who were afloat resistant to treatment, 3 died — some Texas patients and 1 successful Washington.

Lyman said some are ongoing outbreaks and that further infections person been identified since April. But those added numbers were not reported.
Investigators reviewed aesculapian records and recovered nary grounds of erstwhile antifungal usage among the patients successful those clusters. Health officials accidental that means they dispersed from idiosyncratic to person.

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