Today, in news that totally doesn't terrify me or make me feel like the world is coming to a swift and silent end, it appears there is a potentially fatal, drug-resistant strain of yeast infection spreading through hospitals all over the world.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a clinical alert last week to U.S. health-care facilities, warning about a highly drug-resistant type of yeast called Candida auris that's causing potentially fatal infections in hospitalized patients in medical facilities around the world. This isn't your regular old "darn, I've got a yeast infection" type of yeast — this is invasive, and is incredibly dangerous for patients who are in intensive care or having surgery.

This particular strain of yeast hasn't really popped up in the U.S. yet, aside from one possible infection in 2013, but the CDC sent the clinical alert last week because there's reason to believe the strain will start showing up in new places. "CDC is concerned that C. auris will emerge in new locations, including the United States," the alert reads.

"What concerned us is that it is potentially resistant to one or two, if not all three" main classes of antifungal drugs used to treat these infections, Tom Chiller, the CDC's top fungus expert, said in an interview with the Washington Post. According to initial data from the limited number of patients who've become infected with this strain of yeast, 60 percent of people have died — but it's unclear if other serious illnesses they had at the time of infection might have increased their risk of death.

To make matters even more terrifying, this strain is apparently difficult to identify with lab tests, and is often misidentified and then treated incorrectly. Oh, and also, instead of being spread from person to person like most types of yeast, this strain "seems to get into hospital settings and stay there," Chiller told the Washington Post. So it can spread from surface to surface, like from contaminated surfaces to equipment that comes in contact with those surfaces.

For now, the CDC recommends that hospitals that think they have a patient with this infection call the local public health authorities and the CDC. They also recommend keeping this person in their own room, and thoroughly disinfecting that room every day with hospital-grade disinfectant that targets fungus.

Be careful out there, friends.

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