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« on: April 11, 2019, 01:38:59 AM »

This bug is a psycho killer.  It could suck the life out of anyone with a weakened immune system, anyone undergoing an invasive procedure, or anyone with lines or tubes entering their body.  In other words, it could decimate the whole CKD population.

https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/candida-auris-qanda.html
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2019, 11:35:28 AM »

I read about this too and it is very very scary. They know that MRSA isn't just caught in hospitals anymore. It has jumped to spreading outside hospitals to communities. I know because I caught it several years ago. Now I fear that it won't be long that we start seeing Candida auris being spread too.   
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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2019, 09:55:07 AM »

Specialists are projecting a plague, with 700,00 deaths this year, increasing to 10 million per year, from drug-resistant microbes.
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« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2019, 10:29:45 AM »

Specialists are projecting a plague, with 700,00 deaths this year, increasing to 10 million deaths per year, from antibiotic-resistant microbes.
Do you have a source for this? That’s more dire than I’ve read.
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Transplant July 2017 from out of state deceased donor, waited three weeks the creatine to fall into expected range, dialysis December 2013 - July 2017.

Well on dialysis I traveled a lot and posted about international trips in the Dialysis: Traveling Tips and Stories section.
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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2019, 11:17:24 AM »

One of many:

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/94/9/16-020916/en/
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« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2019, 11:38:30 AM »

Who has lower immunity, transplant recipients or dialysis patients?  For CKD patients in general, does immunity decrease in a linear fashion, in step with decreasing GFR?
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« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2019, 01:47:48 PM »

One of many:

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/94/9/16-020916/en/
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Transplant July 2017 from out of state deceased donor, waited three weeks the creatine to fall into expected range, dialysis December 2013 - July 2017.

Well on dialysis I traveled a lot and posted about international trips in the Dialysis: Traveling Tips and Stories section.
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