A drug-resistant fungus is on the rise in American hospitals, targeting patients who already reeling from illness.
New cases have been identified in Georgia and Florida hospitals, according to The Hill.
Candida auris has been in the U.S. since 2016, but cases have increased annually through 2023, the most recent year for which the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have data.
“We’ve had four people at one time on and off, over the past few months, and in years past, it was unusual to have one or even two people with Candida Auris in our hospital,” Dr. Timothy Connelly at Memorial Health in Savannah said, according to WJCL-TV.
Happily presented to us by illegals! They have brought us other diseases such as TB and other contagious diseases. We didn’t have all these mystery sicknesses before Uncle Joe threw the gates at the border open for all to enter. Bring your ailments, spread them around and apply for federal aid. How nice.
” As of April 2019, the CDC has documented cases of C. auris from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela.[30] ”
” Candida auris was first described in 2009 after it was isolated from the ear canal of a 70-year-old Japanese woman at the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital in Japan.[ ”
The first three cases of disease-causing C. auris were reported from South Korea in 2011.[25] Two isolates had been obtained during a 2009 study and a third was discovered in a stored sample from 1996.
During 2009–2011, 12 C. auris isolates were obtained from patients at two hospitals in Delhi, India
The first report of a C. auris outbreak in Europe was an October 2016 in Royal Brompton Hospital, a London cardio-thoracic hospital.[22] In April 2017, CDC director Anne Schuchat named it a “catastrophic threat”.[28] As of May 2017 the CDC had reported 77 cases in the United States. Of these, 69 were from samples collected in New York and New Jersey.[29]
This has nothing to due with illegal migrants.
Due some research before you start making comments.