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CDC Warning! Fatal Fungus Linked to 4 New Deaths—What You Need to Know (Video)
Thirteen people in the United States have been sickened by a deadly
form of drug-resistant yeast that has spread across the world since
2009, and four of those people have died, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said on November 4.
The new yeast superbug, called Candida auris, causes
outbreaks in a way that has never been seen before, and it doesn’t
respond to the few drugs available to treat fungal infections. CDC
scientists are urgently studying it to understand how it spreads and how
it can be controlled.
“I am worried,” says Tom Chiller, a physician who is chief of the
CDC’s mycotic diseases branch. “I think this is a real threat.” It’s
Here Now.
What does this yeast do to people?
C. auris is causing very serious wound and bloodstream infections in
people who are already hospitalized and ill. So it’s behaving like the
bacteria that are known to cause deadly health-care–associated
infections—organisms such as MRSA, Klebsiella, and Acinetobacter that
reach patients on health-care workers’ hands and via contaminated
hospital equipment. Like these bacteria, it causes overwhelming
infections that swamp the immune system and don’t respond to drugs. Just
one problem: Fungi, and especially yeasts, have never behaved this way
before.
How long has this been around?
Starting in 2009, when one patient in Japan got sick, physicians on
different continents began telling each other that they were seeing
hospital outbreaks of a fungus that had never been recorded before and
that didn’t respond to antifungal drugs. By earlier this year,
drug-resistant C. auris had been reported in South Korea,
India, Kuwait, South Africa, and several countries in South America. In
October, doctors in London announced in a medical journal
that an outbreak in their hospital sickened 50 patients and lasted for
more than a year. In various locations, up to two-thirds of those who’ve
been infected with this new fungus have died.
Is this yeast new in the United States?
The CDC announcement marks the second time this year the agency has raised the alarm about C. auris. In June, the CDC sent a warning to U.S. hospitals to begin watching for the pathogen, alerting them that C. auris behaves in ways that are unlike other fungal infections and that it’s both difficult to detect and hard to treat. (See “New and Deadly Drug-Resistant Yeast Emerges Globally.”)
Now, in a special edition of its weekly bulletin, the CDC says that
the warning elicited reports of seven sick patients in New York, New
Jersey, Maryland, and Illinois. Of those infected, four people have
died. Chiller adds that since the agency began writing the bulletin, six
additional cases have been reported. None of the cases are related, and
none of the patients have anything in their recent past that would
explain their infections. But four of them—the two in Illinois and one
each from New Jersey and Maryland—were housed in the same health-care
institutions at different times.
Is this disease like a yeast infection?
This isn’t the kind of yeast that causes vaginal infections or
athlete’s foot—and it also isn’t the kind of serious yeast infection
that physicians see sometimes in hospitals. In those cases, which are
called candidemia, yeasts that are living benignly in someone’s
intestines leak into the bloodstream and cause a whole-body infection
that can be life-threatening. That is, people are the sources of their
own infection.
In the case of this new yeast, the source of the infection isn’t the
person who got sick. It seems instead to be the hospital environment,
including catheters, counters, and other surfaces. Also, this new yeast
is causing outbreaks, which again is very unusual and has
epidemiologists alarmed.
Where is the new fungus coming from?
That isn’t clear. The organisms taken from infected people in other
countries were related genetically in clades—think of them as being like
families—that were similar within each country but unlike ones in other
countries. The implication is that a single new superyeast has not
arisen in one place and started moving across the world. Instead,
perplexingly, separate strains seem to be rising in different places at
the same time.
The cases in the United States that researchers have been able to
analyze seem to be most like the yeasts circulating in South Asia and
South America. But the U.S. patients didn’t travel to those areas, and
only one had been outside the country recently, having been transferred
from a hospital in the Middle East. That’s leading the CDC to wonder
whether, at some point in the past, some unidentified person crossed
borders carrying C. auris unknowingly in their gut and introduced it here.
Why can’t this fungus be cured?
Yeasts are fungi, and antifungal drugs are in short supply, in part
because they’re not something that drug manufacturers see a big market
for. Currently there are only three classes of antifungal drugs
(compared to more than a dozen families of antibiotics), and C. auris is showing resistance to all three.
What is the biggest danger?
In every country where this yeast has appeared, the people who get
sick have already been hospitalized. The U.S. patients, for instance,
had cancers or grave chronic conditions. That means they’re already
receiving lots of drugs, which could undermine their immune systems, and
they’re touched by lots of caregivers and connected to lots of
equipment, both of which could spread the organism onto their skin or
into their bodies.
People with serious long-term conditions often cycle between
different facilities, such as from a hospital to a long-term care unit
or a nursing home, and it’s already known that such transfers can cause
infections to spread back and forth through health care. So until the
source of C. auris is found or a treatment is identified,
isolating patients, enforcing strict precautions for health-care
workers, and cleaning hospitals ultra-thoroughly may be the only
protections.
“We consider this a serious threat that we want to act on aggressively,” Chiller says. “It is just not acting like a typical Candida.
The fact that it is being transferred so readily in hospitals, the fact
that it can develop really bad resistance, and the fact that it is hard
to identify make it a real threat and a challenge.”
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"...because
Fatima is a very apocalyptic message. It says that no matter what
happens there are going to be terrible wars, there are going to be
diseases, whole nations are going to be wiped out, there are going to be
3 days darkness, there are going to be epidemics that will wipe out
whole nations overnight (great culling), parts of the earth will be washed away at sea
and violent tornadoes and storms. It's not a nice message at all." 