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A Hen in the Foxhouse?

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Why Is This My First Recommendation to Watch Fox News? Because this guy is so handsome? Handsome is as handsome does. Some Much Needed Clarification CLICK THIS AND HANG ON TIGHT TO YOUR PRECONCEPTIONS. Scooter the Tooter

Not the Way You Want to Die

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A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy                                                                                       NYTimes There is a fungus among us - maybe at a hospital near you - AND YOU WONT HEAR ABOUT IT! I just LOVE hospitals! Super investigative story on the front page of the NY Times!  Scary, enlightening, infuriating... everything good investigative reporting provides, this story should win a Pulitzer. It's about a drug resistant fungus that blossoms in hospitals.  It is one bad  dude of a "germ,"  Candida auris. "Nearly half of patients who contract C. auris die within 90 days." (Some reports say 60%.) "With bacteria and fungi alike, hospitals and local governments are reluctant to disclose outbreaks for fear of being seen as infection hubs . Even the C.D.C., under its agreement with states, is not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks. "