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Three infants at a Nevada hospital were infected with a deadly fungus — Candida auris — because echocardiogram equipment used on the babies had been inadequately cleaned and was still contaminated from previous patients.
One of the infants died.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigator reported the tragic details at the annual Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America conference last week.
But the CDC omitted one fact — the name of the hospital.
Expectant mothers would want to know which hospital, to avoid exposing their newborns.
The CDC, though, keeps a stranglehold on the information patients and parents need.
It refers to a hospital with an outbreak as “Hospital A,” hiding the name.
In New York, a Candida auris hot spot, state health officials also keep mum about which hospitals are most affected.
These public-health officials are paid by us, but they cater to the hospital industry and keep us in the dark.
Between 30% and 60% of patients who get infected with Candida auris die.
The fungus is spreading at what the CDC warned March 20 is “an alarming rate.”
Scientists speculate that global warming is to blame for this fungus suddenly attacking human beings.