Candida auris: The Great Vampire Squid

[enginist]

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

[PrimeTimer]

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.   

[enginist]

Specialists are projecting a plague, with 700,00 deaths this year, increasing to 10 million per year, from drug-resistant microbes.

[iolaire]

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.

[enginist]

One of many:

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/94/9/16-020916/en/

[enginist]

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?

[iolaire]

One of many:

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/94/9/16-020916/en/

Thanks