'No need to tell the public'/Candida auris

[herbalhippie]

I was reading threads at r/medicine this evening and this really caught my attention. A couple docs said they'd already seen it in their hospitals.

'No need to tell the public': Super fungus that kills nearly half its victims in 90 days has spread globally

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unit ... victims-in

[WotAnAtti2d]

Yeah, like the article says... The overuse of antibiotics have really had a great deal to do with the advent of "super germs". I was standing at my doctor's receptionist window one day, behind a woman with a sick child. She was bitching that she "wanted something that little Timmy could take"! And, she wanted it NOW. You know the type. So, they wound up giving her a script for antibiotics. I asked her why would they give out antibiotics for a common cold. My answer was, "Some people just won't shut up until you give them something." Well that's great, more suffering because of these people. Antibiotics only break down organisms with cell walls, like bacteria. Viruses have a cell membrane, which antibiotics cannot permeate. Although fungi have a cell wall, it is not a typical cell wall like bacteria. Each generation of bacteria is counted in minutes, not years like humans. There's many differing replies to this, some reproduce within 20 minutes, and some can take a number of hours. Regardless, they are all "learning/evolving" to resist/defeat the next big antibiotic.

I'm sure you're going to see this coming. Big Pharma is putting less funding/research into making new antibiotics. Why? Money, of course. Once someone buys one bottle of antibiotics, they're cured of what ailed them, and they don't buy any more. Now, putting funding into things like cancer drugs or stronger opioids, now that's something that keeps people coming back and funding Big Pharma. It's disgusting to me, but not unbelievable.

The best thing that you can do for any kind of infection/germ, is to always wash your hands and/or use an alcohol-based sanitizer. I use the stuff everywhere I see it. I also have at least three bottles of it at home. When I'm packing anything for people, the first thing I do is use the sanitizer... always. You touch your face without knowing it about six times an hour. There are many ways a germ can get in... your eyes, nose, mouth, or even your ears. All you have to do is touch a doorknob or a counter that someone infectious has touched, then put that hand up to your face. I go to the store, the first thing I do when I get home is sanitize my hands. There's plenty of people out there with kids, and I'm not trying to be mean, but they're little germ factories. Smokers have a higher chance of infecting someone too... and they're everywhere. I'm not preaching that the sky is falling, I'm just saying if you're aware and practice good hygiene, it will be a lot harder for something to infect you. I'm an EMT, so it's second nature for me to disinfect, disinfect, disinfect.

I've always believed that we're going to be wiped off of the Earth by something that we can't see. Nature is a mother.

[herbalhippie]

I see that mentioned a lot at r/medicine, people coming in a DEMANDING antibiotics for a virus. And many docs just giving up the script to make them happy and get them the hell out of the office.

This Candida fungus is suspected to be because of crops getting sprayed with anti-fungals.

I wonder which is going to cull the herd, a bacterium, a virus or a fungus?

[e_poison]

There is a fungus called Ophiocordyceps which can literally hijack an ant’s nervous system and control it. It then takes the ant back to its nest to spread the infection. Basically, it makes zombie ants who have no control over their own bodies. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s a real thing. Thankfully this fungus doesn’t spread to humans, but if there ever was a strain that evolved to do so, some theorize it could create a real “zombie apocalypse” scenario.

[herbalhippie]