A new deadly pathogen, candida auris, a.k.a. black fungus, raises eyebrows, the experts are baffled, as usual.
“'Last Of Us' black fungus with 60% death rate spread rapidly during Covid pandemic” (Mirror, 2023.03.23):
Nearly half of patients who contract C. auris die within 90 days as it predominately targets elderly people with weakened immune systems, according to the the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2018 to 2019, cases rose by 44% from 330 to 476, then by 59% to 756 in 2020. There was another 95% rise reported, increasing to 1,471 cases in 2021. Researchers at The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said it represented a "dramatic increase" in transmissions of C. auris. The fungus is now in half of the 50 states.
The fungus is not a threat to young healthy people who can fight it off with their immune systems but it can be transported on skin and clothing.
According to health officials, case numbers more than tripled across the US between 2020 and 2021 during the covid pandemic with antibiotic-resistant strains increasing.
The fungus is thought to have a death-rate of 60 per cent of the people it infects.
How’s that for a mortality rate!
“America's deadly fungus hotspots revealed: Interactive map shows how New York, Illinois and California have highest cases of Candida auris that kills up to 60% of patients - so where does YOUR state rank?” (2023.03.21, Daily Mail):
C auris infections have been growing rapidly recently, and cases in the US rose from 1,310 in 2020 to 4,041 in 2021. Last year, there were 5,754 cases.
The CDC does not keep track of how many people died from C auris and it can be tricky to know if patients died from the fungus as it usually infects people who are already very ill.
CDC data shows fungal infections caused 7,000 deaths in 2021 in the US and 1.5 million worldwide.
Healthy people do not usually get sick, but among the frail and vulnerable, it kills up to 60 percent.
People catch the C auris by touching an infected person. C auris may also be passed on by touching contaminated surfaces or equipment, where it can survive for weeks.
All I can say - keep boosting! Or take a serious look at natural remedies. Your choice.
doctors effed up my health with several courses of antibiotic some years back before i learned about the evils of medicine. as a result i got candida spread through my guts and skin.
doctors were useless as were their treatments, i tried natural things like tea tree oil, oregano oil, coconut oil, it held it at bay but never killed it off.
the guts are tricky to heal but the skin problem i found a solution by accident. i was looking into magic mushrooms and read that fungi wont grow in high sulfur soil, so i added some sulfur to a skin cream and wiped it out pretty fast.
"The fungus is thought to have a death-rate of 60 per cent of the people it infects."
Hahaha! See what they did there? Nobody gets infected with this kind of thing in the first place, if they have a reasonably functional immune system. How much poison would you have to take to be immunocompromised enough to get this unlucky?
More scare tactics. They can do this every 3 months for the next decade, as long as people keep falling for it. Turn your damn TV off already.