It’s not clear why, but CDC investigators have cited staffing shortages (people diverted from infection prevention, to COVID care), more intubated COVID patients, a shortage of personal protective equipment and even the repeated “doffing and donning” of gowns and gloves. outbreaks have been in long-term care facilities, though hospitals also saw outbreaks during the pandemic. The most vulnerable include those with weak immune systems, and hospital patients with “indwelling” devices like ventilators and catheters, according to CIDRAP. “Right now, this is not something that people walking down the street should be scared of,” Wright said.
McMaster University professor Gerry Wright on candida auris: “We don’t know how bad it’s going to be, but people are going to die, and we need to be aware of it.” Photo by JD Howell/McMaster University Who’s most at risk? The organism has also been found on hospital sinks, bed rails, curtains and floors “where it can persist for up to a month,” according to the University of Minnesota’s Centers for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The National Post’s Sharon Kirkey spoke with Wright about what people need to know about C. “Folks were dying,” not of the virus, but because their collapsing immune systems couldn’t fight off “opportunistic” infections, like fungal infections.
Wright has been studying fungi since the mid-1980s when he was in graduate school and the HIV crisis was at its peak. auris to spread can have serious implications for the Canadian health-care system,” the public health agency says on its website. auris, which has a death rate of 29 to 53 per cent, according to the World Health Organization.Īs of March 22, a total of 43 cases had been reported to the Public Health Agency of Canada 19 were identified in the last three years. While generally not a threat to healthy people, people who are very sick or immunocompromised are at increased risk of acquiring C. Isolated cases tripled from 2020 to 2021, for a total of 4,041. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning.
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