Quote:A chef in Michigan has died from a fungal infection that ravaged his body for months - amid signs the strain is growing across the US.


Ian Pritchard, 29, from Petoskey, was taken off life support over the weekend at his own request after weeks of suffering and pain, according to his family who said the fungus 'ate holes in his lungs'.

He was originally hospitalized around Thanksgiving with flu-like symptoms and transferred to a Detroit hospital for more intensive care where he was diagnosed with blastomycosis.

His condition quickly deteriorated as the spores moved deep into his lungs infecting the tissue there, making them look like ‘Swiss cheese’, according to his father Ron.

The fungal infection was brought on by exposure to the blastomyces fungus that lurks in soil, wet leaves, and rotting wood across much of the Midwest.

Health officials have not found the source of Ian's infection but his social media is flooded with images of himself spending time outdoors shooting with friends and running around with his black Labrador Retriever.

Infections in that region have been ticking up recent years, though the true toll of the fungus in the US is not known because the vast majority of states are not required to report them to the government.

Ian was a chef at a Harbor Springs Tex-Mex restaurant called Rodrigo’s before he died.

His father Ron said: ‘He was a good kid. He didn’t get in very much trouble, he was no trouble to raise.

‘People love his food, people love him.’

Ian was in the hospital for months before succumbing to the infection on Saturday.

The week before Thanksgiving, he was admitted to hospital.

While It’s not clear what his symptoms were early on, but the early stages of blastomycosis infection typically resemble a flu-like illness.

Symptoms early on include cough, fever, chills, muscle aches, joint pain, and chest pain.

Mr Pritchard’s condition deteriorated quickly, and he was transferred to the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. It was there that doctors pinpointed the cause of his infection to be exposure to blastomyces.

In all, Ian was in the Detroit hospital for over five weeks.

His father Ron said: ‘They showed us a picture of his lungs, and they literally looked like Swiss cheese.’

The infection occurs when a person inhales spores of the blastomyces fungus, typically found in wet leaves, soil, and rotting wood. Infection from breathing in the spores is rare and only about half of those exposed will experience symptoms.

The infection begins in the lungs, where the spores lodge themselves into lung tissue.

The immune system launches an assault against the infection, sending an army of white blood cells to the lungs. This leads to inflammation in the lung tissue, though, causing lasting damage.

Blastomycosis can spread in the bloodstream to different parts of the body, including the bones, brain, and other organs. It kills between four and 22 percent of its victims.

Antifungal treatments are available, including Itraconazole and Amphotericin B. But the infection evaded anti-fungal medicine, which meant that Ian would not be able to get a much-needed lung transplant.

Ron Pritchard’s coworkers set up a GoFundMe page to help the family defray travel costs to stay with their son in the hospital and the medical bills piling up. Ian’s antifungal medicines alone cost about $7,000 for a month’s supply.

According to an update on the GoFundMe page, Ian was responsive in his final days, and it was his decision to let go, asking his family to pull the plug.

The Pritchards have now lost two children. The first was Ian’s older brother, who was stillborn at eight months. Both boys were survived by their sister Megan, who was by Ian’s side when he passed away.

Exposure to blastomyces is relatively common in the upper Midwest and areas surrounding the Great Lakes.

Quote:Authorities in Washington state confirmed an outbreak of a deadly fungal infection that has been on the rise across the United States in recent years.
Officials in King County, Washington, said in a statement on Tuesday that an outbreak involving three patients infected by Candida auris, or C. auris, was reported at Kindred Hospital in Seattle beginning in mid-January. Another case was detected on Jan. 26 at a nursing home in nearby Snohomish County, officials said.
“These patients had previously tested negative for C. auris when they were first admitted,” it said. “This is the first known outbreak of C. auris in Washington state.”

The health department said it will “work together” with Kindred Hospital to limit the transmission of C. auris, including keeping those who test positive for the fungal infection to stay “away from other patients.”
Kindred Hospital will also notify other facilities that “received patients who were previously at Kindred and will notify facilities that may receive any patient who screens positive for C. auris,” the county’s statement added.
“As is the case with many multi-drug resistant organisms, it can be difficult to identify the initial source of the infection, and while the investigation is ongoing, the original source of C. auris in this situation may never be identified,” the statement continued. “However, with the early identification of these cases, there is a greater opportunity to reduce the risk of further spread.”

Quote:Fungal infections increasing during pandemic, expanding globally due to climate change, WHO says.

Justin Beardsley from the University of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute led the WHO Fungal Priority Pathogens List's study group.

He hopes the research will provide a roadmap for a global effort to tackle current and emerging fungal pathogens.

"Fungi are the 'forgotten' infectious disease," Dr Beardsley said.

Four fungi identified as 'critical'

The list divides the pathogens into three categories — critical, high and medium priority — based on their potential impact and data on their resistance risk.

The fungi of greatest concern are the four critical priority pathogens, ranked highest due to their public health impact or risk of antifungal resistance.

The critical group includes:

• Candida auris, which is highly drug-resistant and has caused a number of outbreaks in hospitals worldwide
  
• Cryptococcus neoformans, which has a propensity to infect the brain, especially in immunocompromised individuals
  
• Aspergillus fumigatus, which mainly affects the lungs, and is becoming increasingly resistant to azole medicines
  
• Candida albicans, which is a newly emerged pathogen.
  

Quote:Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic?

The origins and global spread of two recent, yet quite different, pandemic diseases is discussed and reviewed in depth: Candida auris, a eukaryotic fungal disease, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a positive strand RNA viral respiratory disease. Both these diseases display highly distinctive patterns of sudden emergence and global spread, which are not easy to understand by conventional epidemiological analysis based on simple infection-driven human-to-human spread of an infectious disease (assumed to jump suddenly and thus genetically, from an animal reservoir). Both these enigmatic diseases make sense however under a Panspermia in-fall model and the evidence consistent with such a model is critically reviewed.

Quote:...Panoramic was among 80 organizations that worked on Project MK-Ultra, the CIA’s infamous “mind control” program, best known for the psychological tortures it inflicted on frequently unwilling human subjects. Through a front called the Medical Sciences Research Foundation, Panoramic appears to have been assigned to subprojects 93 and 94, on the study of bacterial and fungal toxins and “the remote directional control of activities of selected species of animals.” Research by David H. Price, an anthropologist at Saint Martin’s University, shows that Woody and his colleagues also received money from the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA front that provided grants to scientists whose work might improve the agency’s interrogation techniques or act as camouflage for that work. (The CIA would neither confirm nor deny any knowledge of, or connection to, Woody or Panoramic.)

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