| A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=50527"><span class="small">Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Saturday, 06 April 2019 12:25 |
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Excerpt: "Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit."
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy06 April 19
The germ, a fungus called Candida auris, preys on people with weakened immune systems, and it is quietly spreading across the globe. Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa. Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.”  |
ast May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit.