Drug resistant fungus is taking over the Earth

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LiterallyAnything: Jul 11, 2008; by vyelkin

Candida Auris kind of sounds like the subject of an Exit Mundi scenario, and it seems to have a lot of people worried.

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Candida auris is an emerging fungus that presents a serious global health threat. CDC is concerned about C. auris for three main reasons:

It is often multidrug-resistant, meaning that it is resistant to multiple antifungal drugs commonly used to treat Candida infections.
It is difficult to identify with standard laboratory methods, and it can be misidentified in labs without specific technology. Misidentification may lead to inappropriate management.
It has caused outbreaks in healthcare settings. For this reason, it is important to quickly identify C. auris in a hospitalized patient so that healthcare facilities can take special precautions to stop its spread.

CDC.gov

The Last Of Us is based on the Cordyceps fungus, but Candida Auris is scarier-

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The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.

�Everything was positive � the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,� said Dr. Scott Lorin, the hospital�s president. �The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.�

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A study the British government funded projects that if policies are not put in place to slow the rise of drug resistance, 10 million people could die worldwide of all such infections in 2050, eclipsing the eight million expected to die that year from cancer.

NYTimes.com

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Chicago area is a hotspot for Candida auris.

Since May 2016, the Illinois Department of Public Health has logged 158 cases � 95 in Chicago, 56 elsewhere in Cook County and seven in DuPage, Lake and Will counties. That�s second only to New York and New Jersey, which together have seen more than 400 reported cases.

Chicago.Suntimes.com

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As of late January, the CDC says, 590 cases have been reported in the U.S., across 12 states.

While that�s still a relatively small amount, the number has more than doubled from the 243 cases of a year earlier.

ConsumerReports.org

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In the last decade, four different strains of the multidrug-resistant yeast have been reported in more than 30 countries around the globe. All have proven difficult to detect, and hard to eradicate.

CBC.ca

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But how we got here is a mystery: While the fungus seems to have cropped up relatively recently, its genetics reveal distinct groups that evolved apart, on different continents.
"We really can't explain that ... unless it goes back thousands of years," said Dr. Tom Chiller, chief of the CDC's Mycotic Diseases Branch.

CNN.com

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"We don�t really know why globally this bug has burst on the scene all over the world." he said. "We're seeing it in hospitals � we have a problem obviously in New York and New Jersey, but we see it in Spain, the United Kingdom, South Africa, other places."

USAToday.com

It almost looks petroleum-based, like Styrofoam or something-

Hope?

UMN.edu

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Biotechnology company Scynexis, Inc., is reporting early but promising results from a phase 3 trial of a novel drug for treating invasive Candida auris infections.

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pram: Jun 10, 2001

i dont think jizz is supposed to look like that see a doctor op

# ? Apr 14, 2019 03:51

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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lol @ this glorified yeast infection fungus. It only has like a 40% mortality rate and that's in people with compromised immune systems

I say bring it on

# ? Apr 14, 2019 03:56

guestimate: Nov 10, 2011

Blame Candida

# ? Apr 14, 2019 03:58

kalel: Jun 19, 2012

there's so many doomsday scenarios that a loving fungus doesn't even register a blip on the zero-day-dar

# ? Apr 14, 2019 03:59

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

i hope the world gets wrecked right before i die a natural death. winning!

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:00

500excf type r: Mar 7, 2013; I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

could it be a form of fungal warfare where it was made from other strains which is why the dna seems to be from all over the globe

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:03

Brute Hole Force: Dec 25, 2005; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Dow chemical probably still has the recipe for napalm so not seeing a problem here.

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:06

CloFan: Nov 6, 2004

Thanks for link to exit mundi, op

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:17

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

here lies humanity, pwned by oral thrush

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:19

DeadFatDuckFat: Oct 29, 2012; This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.

Turns out all those candida diet books were actually giving people the fungus

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:19

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

I certainly am... a... FUNGI

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:26

Hell Yeah: Dec 25, 2012

LiterallyAnything posted:

It almost looks petroleum-based, like Styrofoam or something-

there are many microbes that look like this on a plate, it looks normal.

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:33

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

CloFan posted:

Thanks for link to exit mundi, op

exit mundi owns

http://realultimatepower.net

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:34

SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

guestimate posted:

Blame Candida

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:35

Relayer: Sep 18, 2002

niceee

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:37

luchajones: Jan 28, 2018; I have no beard, and I must scream

It's just the King from the Mario movie

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:40

Im Ready for DEATH: Oct 5, 2016

Ive been hoping for something to wipe out mad humans, but I feel like this fungus is going to let me down and somehow we'll figure out a way to beat it in the end. It's so disappointing to get your hopes up on the pale horse of pestilence only to find out later that it was Fake News, just something hyped up by lame journalist bitches to get clicks.

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:45

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Im Ready for DEATH posted:

Ive been hoping for something to wipe out mad humans, but I feel like this fungus is going to let me down and somehow we'll figure out a way to beat it in the end. It's so disappointing to get your hopes up on the pale horse of pestilence only to find out later that it was Fake News, just something hyped up by lame journalist bitches to get clicks.

trust the fungus

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:47

Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Juffo-Wup is inevitable

# ? Apr 14, 2019 04:50

Hairy Busey: Jan 5, 2019; by FactsAreUseless

Sounds like these foreign invaders are insidious indeed

# ? Apr 14, 2019 06:25

Relin: Oct 6, 2002; You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!

old/immuno compromised people dying isnt a problem for human survival. people will revert to younger ages to produce kids if there was an apocalypse. i mean, society might collapse mostly, but humans wont be wiped out by this. climate change is going to looooong before some virulent disease

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:09

COMRADES: Apr 3, 2017; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Yeah really by 2050 I fully expect to be spraying chrome paint into my face and yelling witness. Can't be worried about some fungus.

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:18

Comrayn: Jul 22, 2008

In the event of an apocalypse, I will simply revert to a younger age.

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:20

Lil Swamp Booger Baby: Aug 1, 1981

Fungus is the king of this earth. Not even kidding, trees and vegetation on this planet owe their wide networks and spread to mycorrhizal fungi that form a vast highway of nutritional webs stretching for miles and miles, operating in symbiosis with the trees that provide us with air.

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:23

Beefed Owl: Sep 13, 2007; Come at me scrub-lord I'm ripped!

If the fungus isn't wanted the body has a way of shutting it down

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:24

Kak: Sep 27, 2002

magic mushrooms are going to take over my brain once i grow these spores

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:25

1stGear: Jan 16, 2010; Here's to the new us.

Wasn't expecting the superbug that wipes out humanity to be fungus but I'm not picky, woohoo let's get this apocalypse started

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:25

13Pandora13: Nov 5, 2008; I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Fungus is the king of this earth. Not even kidding, trees and vegetation on this planet owe their wide networks and spread to mycorrhizal fungi that form a vast highway of nutritional webs stretching for miles and miles, operating in symbiosis with the trees that provide us with air.

Would you say the fungus...is among us?

# ? Apr 14, 2019 07:26