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Drug-resistant fungus Candida Auris spreads in Georgia hospitals (www.wjcl.com)

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SAVANNAH, Ga. —

A fungus, Candida Auris, is further drawing attention from health care professionals across the nation due to its rapid spread and resistance to treatment. The drug-resistant fungus, first identified in 2016, has doubled its prevalence in the U.S. each year since its discovery.

“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,” said Dr. Timothy Connelly at Memorial Health in Savannah.

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[–] comfortablydumb@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

We have multiple cases in our hospital's ICU. We even have gone so far as to divide the ICU into two departments, one for people with C.auris, SARS-COV2 or Acinetobacter baumanii and one for non-carriers of the above