Who had banana fungus for July?

[George K]

https://www.foxnews.com/health/superbug-fungus-spread-cities-health-officials

Banana fungus may create 'apocalyptic scenario' for most popular type of fruit

The Colombian Agricultural Institute confirmed that the presence of a banana-targeting fungus known as Tropical Race 4 has led the government to declare a national state of emergency. Cavendish bananas are the most widely grown and consumed type of banana across the globe, and a significant portion of the world’s bananas are grown in Latin America.

U.S. health officials said Thursday they now have evidence of an untreatable fungus spreading in two hospitals and a nursing home.

The "superbug" outbreaks were reported in a Washington, D.C, nursing home and at two Dallas-area hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. A handful of the patients had invasive fungal infections that were impervious to all three major classes of medications.

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"This is really the first time we’ve started seeing clustering of resistance" in which patients seemed to be getting the infections from each other, said the CDC’s Dr. Meghan Lyman.

The fungus, Candida auris, is a harmful form of yeast that is considered dangerous to hospital and nursing home patients with serious medical problems. It is most deadly when it enters the bloodstream, heart or brain. Outbreaks in health care facilities have been spurred when the fungus spread through patient contact or on contaminated surfaces.

Health officials have sounded alarms for years about the superbug after seeing infections in which commonly used drugs had little effect. In 2019, doctors diagnosed three cases in New York that were also resistant to a class of drugs, called echinocandins, that were considered a last line of defense.

[Jolly]

Ain't that just spiffy.

[Mik]

Not very apeeling.

[LuFins Dad]

I did!

Oh, wait, wrong Banana…