Illness in Las Vegas caused by a 'super bug'
Wife heard a report about illness in LV and asked me to consider cancelling my trip... I said I would do a search and I did
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Yes, there is a fungus that is a problem
No, it is not 'all over Vegas' it happens inside hospitals or other medical facilities
Summary is here, the article link is below if you want to read and see the list of facilities
If I don't have to go to a hospital there is almost ZERO reason for me to be concerned
AND there are hospitals all over the US that have 'super bug' infection problems
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A “superbug” that can cause severe infections in hospital patients is on the rise, with cases rising to their highest levels over the past two months in Nevada health care facilities.
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REPEAT - in Nevada health care facilities
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Information obtained by 8 News Now from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services shows Candida auris, or C. auris, has been found at 42 facilities, with Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas with the highest levels — nearly 500 total cases.
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C. auris is a fungus that is easily spread. It is one of five superbugs identified in 2019 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “urgent.” They are so-called “superbugs” because they are hard to kill with existing drugs.
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A total of 1,313 cases have been reported in Nevada so far in 2023. Of those, 492 were clinical cases and 821 were “colonization” cases — where the fungus was present but had not caused an infection. In November 2022, the state had a total of 774 cases on record. Since then, the fungus has been found at 16 more facilities — now a total of 42 sites, mostly in Southern Nevada.
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Patients who need catheters are at higher risk of infection because the fungus can be present on surfaces, getting into the bloodstream during invasive procedures.
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A factor in the higher number of cases: Testing for C. auris is more common than it was last year. As attention to the fungus increased over the past year and a half, patients in hospitals for other problems are tested more routinely when doctors suspect it is present. The number of cases does not reflect the number of people affected, as one person may sometimes have both a colonized case and a clinical case.
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Read the entire article to see the list of medical facilities that have problems
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https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/superbug-cases-rising-in-nevada-over-past-two-months-las-vegas-hospital-leads-list/

