Flesh Eating Fungus Anta.. Spreading Thru Unwashed Towels And Bedsheet

[siru]

Newyork Times article on cleanliness in hospitals.

A Deadly Fungus and Questions at a Hospital

NEW ORLEANS — The first victim was a premature boy in the intensive care unit whose mother noticed a mysterious irritation in his groin; it grew into an open wound burrowing into the baby’s abdomen. The last patient to die was a 10-year-old girl, whose face was ravaged.

Three other patients at Children’s Hospital here were also stricken, including a 13-year-old boy who his parents said endured over 20 surgical procedures in 54 days in a futile effort to save him.

Like the others, Zachary Malik Tyler, the 13-year-old, arrived at Children’s Hospital battling a serious illness before being overwhelmed by an infection. “What haunts me more than anything is thinking about what he suffered,” said Stephen Tyler, his father.

The children died of various causes between August 2008 and July 2009 during an outbreak of a flesh-eating fungal infection, mucormycosis, most likely spread by bed linens, towels or gowns, according to a medical journal. The disclosure this month caused new pain for the families of the children and raised troubling questions about how the infections came about, why doctors did not connect the cases until more than 10 months after the first death, and what obligation the hospital had to inform parents — and the community — of the outbreak.

[KaskaMiska]

similar thing happening in midwest due to ticks. new virus is causing severe flu and deaths

[siru]

similar thing happening in midwest due to ticks. new virus is causing severe flu and deaths

Its frightening to think that we are living so closely with those kind of fungus, ticks etc.

[KaskaMiska]

Its frightening to think that we are living so closely with those kind of fungus, ticks etc.

 

ticks, bed bugs, mosquitoes  all these parasites are killers man..ticks can be found commonly in dog fur