Recently infections of Candida Auris have been becoming more common all over the world. Candida Auris is a fungal infection that preys on people with weakened immune systems. Most people who are infected are those who are in hospitals. This fungal infection is especially dangerous because it is resistant to most antibiotics. This fungus infects those with weakened immune systems and most patients that are infected do not live for more than forty days. Much of the information about these outbreaks are not being shared with the public until about a year after the outbreak. The symptoms of Candida Auris are fatigue, fever and aches which seem fairly common but in a person who is already ill these symptoms can become deadly.

This outbreak is increasingly concerning because it is targeting the people with weakened immune system which are the people who are currently the weakest and can be the most negatively affected by contracting a fungi. The concern is also that the public is not well aware of this outbreak because cases are not shared openly with the public. This can put even more people at risk because people could be unknowingly be walking into an outbreak. This acknowledgement of this outbreak is really important because without this outbreak could continue to be increasingly more devastating.

I feel that this outbreak should be made known to the public and that hospitals should take more diligent steps to contain the spread of Candida Auris once it is identified in the hospital. The prevalence of these outbreaks is evidence of the misuse of antibiotics. Antibiotics are extremely important in helping individuals get over a bacterial infections but antibiotics can be over-prescribed which leads bacteria to become more resistant to the antibiotics that treat it. This creates a problem for doctors to treat this new antibiotic resistant bacteria and fungi because there are few options of antibiotics that will actually work on killing the bacterial infection. This will lead to the need for developing new antibiotics which is a very difficult task. I believe that antibiotic use should be slightly more regulated so that more outbreaks of antibiotic resistant fungi and bacteria do not occur.