these are the sort of items which could easily be called blowback due to 'our way of life';


Thanks to the overprescription of antimicrobial drugs and use of antifungicides in crop production, a relatively new germ that preys on people with weakened immune systems is rapidly spreading across the globe, according to the New York Times.

A projection of the C. auris fungus on a microscope slide.CreditMelissa Golden for The New York Times

The infection – a fungus called Candida auris, kills half of patients who contract it within 90 days, according to the CDC – as it’s impervious to most major antifungal medications. First described in 2009 after a 70-year-old Japanese woman showed up at a Tokyo hospital with C. auris in her ear canal, the aggressive yeast infection has spread across Asia and Europe – arriving in the US by 2016.

The earliest known case in the United States involved a woman who arrived at a New York hospital on May 6, 2013, seeking care for respiratory failure. She was 61 and from the United Arab Emirates, and she died a week later, after testing positive for the fungus. At the time, the hospital hadn’t thought much of it, but three years later, it sent the case to the C.D.C. after reading the agency’s June 2016 advisory. –NYT........https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/04/06/mysterious-drug-resistant-germ-deemed-an-urgent-threat-is-quietly-sweeping-the-globe/