{"id":2000,"date":"2023-03-24T03:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2023-03-24T03:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T03:58:21","slug":"what-is-candida-auris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"What Is Candida Auris?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\">First recognized in 2009,&nbsp;<em>Candida auris<\/em>&nbsp;is a yeast (a fungus) that can lead to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/what-is-candida-and-candidiasis-1942523\">candidiasis<\/a>, a dangerous and potentially lethal disease. This fungus becomes especially problematic when it enters the bloodstream and spreads throughout the body. Not only is this condition hard to detect, but it also leads to infections as it spreads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-2\">What makes Candida auris alarming is that infections are most often detected within hospitals and clinical environments. Notably, more than 1,400 cases were reported within the U.S. from March 2021 to February 2022 , with the most occurring in California, Floria, New York, and Illinois.<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;While this is by no means a common infection, its rise in recent years is alarming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"health-sc-block-image--none_1-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/thmb\/pB8m6MqUpHVrJ4WpYmz8dHZw-M8=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/candida-auris-4692475_FINAL-776ad17888c4420eb7bb3f0ff821591f.jpg\" alt=\"Candida Auris Symptoms\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/thmb\/pB8m6MqUpHVrJ4WpYmz8dHZw-M8=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/candida-auris-4692475_FINAL-776ad17888c4420eb7bb3f0ff821591f.jpg\" alt=\"Candida Auris Symptoms\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Verywell \/ Laura Porter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/candida-auris-4692475\">https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/candida-auris-4692475<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First recognized in 2009,&nbsp;Candida auris&nbsp;is a yeast (a fungus) that can lead to&nbsp;candidiasis, a dangerous and potentially lethal disease. This fungus becomes especially problematic when it enters the bloodstream and spreads throughout the body. Not only is this condition hard to detect, but it also leads to infections as it spreads. What makes Candida auris alarming is that infections are most often detected within hospitals and clinical environments. Notably, more than 1,400 cases were reported within the U.S. from March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}