PODIATRIST WARNS OF DANGEROUS NEW FUNGAL INFECTION

According to Conway McLean, DPM, "There is a new player in the world of drug-resistant germs: a fungal contagion, which is quietly spreading across the globe. Candida auris seems well on the way to becoming the next epidemiologic crisis, threatening the lives of the infirm, the ill, the elderly, anyone with a weakened immune system. This is a fungal organism, which has become impervious to all of our most powerful antifungal medications. Additionally, C. auris is extremely hard to identify, escaping detection in many individuals so afflicted."

 

Dr. Conway McLean

 

"Over the last five years, outbreaks of C. auris infections have occurred in healthcare facilities all over the world, including a neonatal unit in Venezuela, a hospital in Spain, even a prestigious medical center in England. These dangerous organisms have caused infections in the U.S., India, and South Africa. Yet, many of the affected institutions have been reluctant to publicize the outbreaks of Candida auris, claiming the news will frighten the public unnecessarily," says Dr. McLean.

 

Source: Marquette Mining Journal [10/24/23]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News