A list of more than a dozen fungi that pose a public health risk was released today by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The global health agency has identified 19 “priority pathogens” that grow and become resistant to treatments, including yeast and mold.

Fungal infections are responsible for approximately 1.7 million deaths and over 150 million serious infections worldwide each year.

But the infections – which spread in hospitals and can be deadly for immunocompromised people – have become increasingly common during the pandemic.

The pathogens prey on people with weakened immune systems, including those fighting COVID-19. Treatments for Covid, including steroids, can further weaken the body’s defenses against fungi.

The WHO publishes a similar list of the most dangerous bacteria and cites a general lack of investment in research into dangerous fungi as the reason for compiling the list of priority fungal pathogens.

Fungal pathogens remain a major public health threat, but too few resources are being spent on developing effective antifungal drugs, WHO says.

A historical lack of research on fungal pathogens has left gaps in knowledge about diagnostics and viable treatments.

The various fungi included in the list represent “priority pathogens” including yeasts and molds commonly found in the environment and in our own bodies.

dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Deputy Director-General for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), said: “Fungal infections are emerging from the shadow of the bacterial antimicrobial resistance pandemic, are rising and becoming more resistant to treatments and becoming a public health concern worldwide. ‘

The health agency advised governments to strengthen their systems to monitor dangerous mushrooms and respond to the 19 varieties included in the list.

“Countries are encouraged to take a phased approach, beginning with strengthening their laboratory and surveillance capacities for fungal diseases and ensuring equitable access to existing high-quality therapeutics and diagnostics worldwide,” said Dr. Haileyesus Getahun, WHO Director, AMR Global Coordination Department.

A constantly warming planet means fungi are constantly adapting to rising temperatures, making them better able to infect humans.

Global warming is changing the properties of the fungus, its environment and its host, increasing the likelihood that new fungal species will emerge.

Most people who suffer from a severe yeast infection are already seriously ill.

Infections from these dangerous opportunistic pathogens have exploded during the Covid pandemic.

The health authority divided the 19 types of fungus into three priority groups, which were ranked from high to low.

Fungal infections are responsible for approximately 1.7 million deaths each year and over 150 million serious infections are reported worldwide each year.

dr Neil Stone, adviser on infectious diseases and microbiology at University College London Hospitals, said: “Finally the threat of fungal infections has been addressed as a priority issue, which is long overdue.”

“Fungal infections have always been a threat, but have historically been grossly neglected when it comes to public awareness and funding for clinical research… As a result, the diagnosis and treatment of fungal diseases lags far behind those of bacterial diseases.”

Mushrooms that the WHO wants to warn about

‘Critical’ Priority:

1. Cryptococcus neoformans

2. Candida auris

3. Aspergillus fumigatus

4. Candida albicans

‘High priority:

1. Histoplasm

2. Eumycetoma

3. Mucoral

4. Candida tropicalis

5. Nacaseomyces

6. Candida parapsilose

‘Medium’ priority:

1. Scedosporium

2. Lomentospora prolificans

3. Coccidioids

4. Pichia kudriavzeveii

5. Cryptococcus gattii

6. Talaromyces marneffei

7. Pneumocystis jirovecii

8. Paracoccidioides

Four species of fungi were included in the critical priority group: Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida Auris.

Aspergillus produces spores that are airborne and can threaten the lung health of people with compromised immune systems.

Candida albicans is commonly found in the gut but can cause invasive infections in immunocompromised people. It can cause an asthma-like condition, pulmonary fibrosis, or a benign tumor.

Cryptococcus neoformans can cause deadly brain infections. Worldwide, it is a leading cause of disease in patients with HIV/AIDS, killing at least 180,000 people annually.

Candida Auris (C. Auris) growing on yeast leads to serious and sometimes fatal infections.

The mortality rate from C.Auris, which spreads rapidly in healthcare settings, can be as high as 60 percent.

Cases of infection in the US rose from 10 in 2015 to 700 in 2020, the CDC said.

There are only four categories of antifungal drugs and very few are in the development pipeline.

The scientific community welcomed the WHO report, calling it a positive step towards innovative new ways to treat treatment-resistant fungal infections.

Prof Jon Cohen, an infectious disease expert at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the UK, said: “While the problems associated with bacteria, particularly resistance to antibiotics, have become well known and of course viruses such as COVID have received a great deal of public attention, serious ones Fungal infections have received far less attention.”

He added: “They are less common than other types of infection but can cause extremely serious illness or death, and there are often far fewer treatment options.”

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Havana, 25 October (EFE).- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on Tuesday that his country would ratify the commitment “to unity” at the meeting of foreign ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to be held in Cuba Buenos Aires.

“In the face of great common challenges, we will confirm Cuba’s commitment to unity in diversity,” wrote the island’s foreign minister on his Twitter profile.

Rodríguez reported on his attendance at this Wednesday’s CELAC meeting, indicating that it will be “an opportunity to discuss issues of regional interest and to further strengthen this mechanism for political unification and integration”.

Argentina, which holds the pro tempore 2022 presidency of CELAC, will receive the representatives of the 32 member countries of the Latin American group to discuss “15 lines of action” including the post-pandemic economic recovery, the regional health strategy, the ‘Celac’ agenda against corruption and food security.

The foreign ministers will also talk about the dialogue with supra-regional partners; the integration of Latin American and Caribbean infrastructure; environmental cooperation and the improvement of the situation and situation of women in the member countries.

The meeting aims to renew the strategic connection based on historical, cultural and human ties and to strengthen the ties so that the relationship can reach its full potential.

A day later, also in Buenos Aires, the foreign ministers of CELAC and the European Union (EU) will meet, the first since 2018, to strengthen the bi-regional dialogue. EFE

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A German doctor has been sentenced to pay around R$70,000 to a health insurance provider who helped his lover after she overdosed and died during intercourse. Andreas David Niederbichler, 46, was arrested in 2019 for putting cocaine up his penis before Yvonne M, 38, performed oral sex on him.

According to the British tabloid Chron, Niederbichler was sentenced to nine years in prison for rape and refused to pay for his wife’s funeral and family compensation. The woman’s husband and children then sued the surgeon, and last year Niederbichler was ordered to pay €29,500 (about BRL197,000) in compensation to the victim’s family.

Now a judge in Magdeburg has decided that he must also pay the treatment costs to the insurance company that saved the woman. He is currently in rehab.

During the trial, Niederbichler claimed the woman knew he injected cocaine into his penis. However, the court rejected the version. In addition to Yvone, Niederbichler is also accused of drugging and raping three other women between September 2015 and February 2018. He is said to have put the drug in champagne glasses, lipstick and toothpaste.

Speaking to the German newspaper Bild, the surgeon confirmed that drugs were involved in the sexual intercourse, but said everyone was aware of it.

The Court of Appeals has already dismissed the appeal and Niederbichler has presented no new evidence that would compel him to reconsider the case.

The White House on Tuesday argued that high turnout and voter suppression can occur simultaneously, defending President Joe Biden’s criticism of Georgia’s election law.

When White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Georgia’s record early voting turnout, a state president, Joe Biden, claimed he had a “Jim Crow-style” voting system.

“High turnout and voter suppression can happen simultaneously,” she said at her news conference.

She pointed out that President Biden was referring to a series of election laws passed after Donald Trump’s false claim that he was the true winner of the 2020 presidential election and a victim of voter fraud.

Republican-controlled states enacted stricter voting measures after this election. Many states had expanded postal and postal voting in 2020 because of the Covid pandemic.

In 2022, at least seven states have enacted 10 laws that make voting difficult—of which five laws in five states are in effect for the midterms, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

“The President has made it very clear that, based on The Big Lie, there have been a variety of anti-voter policies for some states that challenge Americans’ fundamental right to vote,” Jean-Pierre said. “It goes against our most basic values.”

“Of course, high turnout and voter suppression can happen simultaneously,” she added. “You don’t have to come by yourself. It can happen simultaneously.’

She declined to go into further detail, citing the Hatch Act, a federal law that prohibits federal employees from engaging in workplace politics.

When White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Georgia’s record early voting turnout, a state President Joe Biden claimed he had a “Jim Crow” style electoral law: “High turnout and voter suppression can happen at the same time “, she said

Citizens cast their ballots for the November midterm elections this week at early polling stations in Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia

In March 2021, Biden called Georgia’s newly enacted election law “Jim Crow in the 21st century” and “an atrocity.”

Biden won Georgia in 2020 and Trump is under investigation in the state over allegations that he and his allies pressured state officials to overturn the presidential contest results.

Georgia’s new law imposes new voter identification requirements for postal voting, restricts the use of ballot boxes, makes it a crime to approach voters for food and water, and gives state officials more power over local elections.

It applies to the November 8 elections that will determine control of Congress. The state will also elect a new governor that day.

As of Sunday, about 838,000 Georgians had cast their ballots, most of them in person at primary polling locations, with the rest voting by mail.

That’s almost 60% more than the total number of early ballots cast at this point in 2018, the last midterm election.

More than 10% of registered voters in Georgia have already cast ballots, a percentage trailing only Massachusetts and Vermont, where 22% and 16% of voters cast their ballots, according to an Associated Press analysis of data provided by Professor Michael from the University of Florida McDonald.

California and Florida have each accepted more than 1 million absentee ballots to date. And the statewide numbers are likely to accelerate this week as more states open early in-person polling stations or mail ballots to voters.

“We’re seeing a very robust number of people voting early, so at that point before Election Day we’d have to see a turnout crater to change course, which we’re going to change,” McDonald said.

Georgia enacted a new election law after the 2020 election, President Joe Biden calling it a “Jim Crow-style” law.

Young people pass a voting information sign on the Emory University campus in Atlanta, Georgia

Republicans have seized on the Georgia numbers as justification for their 2021 rewrite of the state election law.

They hope to re-elect Governor Brian Kemp, who narrowly defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams in 2018, and bolster Herschel Walker over Raphael Warnock, the Democrat who won a Senate runoff in January 2021.

Turnout is record-breaking, said Tate Mitchell, a spokesman for the Kemp campaign, “while Stacey Abrams continues to perpetuate the myth of voter suppression.”

Abrams resists this mockery, although she too celebrates the high early turnout.

“More people in the water doesn’t mean there are fewer sharks,” Abrams said Monday.

“It’s wrong to say there’s a link between voter turnout and voter suppression because suppression is about barriers,” Abrams said. “If these barriers are not entirely successful, credit does not go to those who erected the barriers. Credit goes to those voters who found a way to break, break, and break down these barriers.’

The surge in early turnout coincides with Abrams encouraging her supporters to vote in person rather than using absentee ballots. She heavily promoted the Mail-ins in their loss to Kemp four years ago — as did Democrats elsewhere to their advantage during the 2020 pandemic election.

However, Georgia’s 2021 Election Law added identification requirements to mail-in voting and severely limited the number of Dropboxes used during the 2020 cycle in urban districts that greatly benefit Democrats.

The law also made it easier for anyone to challenge an individual voter’s eligibility to vote and reduced opportunities to cast a provisional vote if a voter turned up at the wrong polling station on election day.

Republicans are hoping for Governor Brian Kemp, who narrowly defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams in 2018, to be reelected. Abrams challenges him again this year

According to the Abrams campaign, more than 90,000 voters had their eligibility challenged, mostly by conservative groups, although a large proportion of those challenges were dismissed.

Kemp defeated Abrams four years ago by around 55,000 votes. President Biden won the 2020 Georgia electoral vote by about 11,500 votes, and Warnock won his Senate runoff by about 95,000 votes.

In light of the changes to the election law, Democrats are urging supporters to vote as soon as possible during the early in-person voting window, which began Oct. 17 and lasts until Nov. 4, four days before Election Day.

The idea is that if committed Democrats vote early, the party will be able to shift its focus to others and reduce crowds in the final week of early voting.

Lauren Groh-Wargo, Abrams campaign manager, said Monday that “that big turnout in the first week was a key part of our strategy,” and the campaign doesn’t think the vote will slow down.

Since beginning her first run for governor four years ago, Abrams’ strategy has been to expand the electorate by sporadically persuading voters, particularly among younger generations and non-whites of all ages. She is black, Kemp is white.

According to the analysis of the campaign, according to Groh-Wargo, 16% of the pre-voters, including voting by post and voting in person, did not vote in Georgia in 2018. She also said about 55,000 of the early in 2020 didn’t vote when the Democrats won.

Those trends, she said, suggest the strategy is working, at least in the early days of early voting. But Kemp has led in nearly every public poll, and his campaign continues to seek to go beyond Republican partisans to win independents and some black voters.

“We are confident that Governor Kemp’s track record and vision for the future will continue to win voters from across the Peach State,” Mitchell said.

The Abrams campaign has so far touted high black turnout, with about 35.5% of the preliminary votes coming from black voters. In 2020, when Biden won, that was 33% by a week of pre-voting. In 2018, when Abrams lost, it was 31%.

Groh-Wargo also highlighted black men and said analysis of the campaign showed about 97,000 black men had already voted; that was about 45,000 at this point during Abrams’ loss attempt. Abrams, who would become the first black woman governor in the United States, has focused more openly on reaching out to black men in her second campaign.

The Georgia electorate has not yet reflected an increase in female voter turnout, although Democrats insist the Supreme Court’s decision overturning the Roe v. Wade’s 1973 legalization of abortion will affect women nationwide.

The data shows that the pre-vote so far is 54.5% female, which is about the average for the Georgia general election. However, it is worth noting that 59% of mail-in ballot applications are female and most of them have not yet been returned. So the electorate could still be more female than usual.

ALONA MASURENKO — TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2022, 7:13 PM

During October 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked twenty areas in which enemy troops and weapons were concentrated.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information from October 25, 18:00

Quote: “According to the latest information, the Ukrainian defense forces killed about 30 people [invaders]and more than a hundred enemy soldiers remained under the rubble as a result of point hits by Defense Forces artillery in the village of Kairy, Kherson region.

In the village of Hornostaivka, after the detonation of the ammunition depot, the movement of a large number of ambulances was observed. Casualties are carefully hidden by the enemy.

Ukrainian aircraft conducted 15 strikes on October 25, strikes 12 areas the concentration of Russian weapons and equipment, 2 bases and several anti-aircraft systems. In addition, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down one UAV.

Ukraine’s missile troops and artillery struck eight areas where Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment were concentrated, as well as ammunition dumps and other key military targets of the occupiers.”

Details: The Russians are trying to hold the temporarily captured areas, focusing on deterring the actions of the defensive forces on certain fronts, and conducting offensive actions on the Bakhmut and Avdiivka fronts.

The Russian invaders are attacking the positions of the Ukrainian forces along the entire line of contact, strengthening defenses on some fronts and conducting aerial reconnaissance.

During the day, the Russians carried out 3 rocket attacks and 11 airstrikes, as well as more than 25 attacks with multiple rocket launchers.

About 25 towns and communities were hit by the occupier’s attacks. These are Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast), Bakhmutske and Vuhledar (Donetsk Oblast) and Nova Kamianka (Kherson Oblast).

The story goes on

On the Sivershchyna, Slobozhanshchyna, Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut and Avdiivka fronts, the Russians fired from tanks, mortars, gun and rocket artillery.

The Russians shelled positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian infrastructure near more than 20 cities along the line of contact.

On the Pivdennyi Buh front, the Russians fired on more than 30 cities and towns. The occupiers continue to mine areas along the coast of the Dnipro River.

The Russians are trying to restore the damaged pontoon bridge crossings. The invaders launched up to 50 UAVs of various types to conduct aerial reconnaissance missions.

The Russian occupying forces continue forced mobilization measures to replenish their current losses.

In the temporarily occupied Khrustalnyj (Luhansk Oblast), the so-called mobile groups arrest all men and transport them to military service.

According to the available information, another group of prisoners from the territory of Russia came to Stanytsia Luhanska to replenish the units armed with MANPADS. Local so-called security forces are forbidden to intervene in the event of violations by the arriving mercenaries.

Another group of Russian soldiers arrived in Vovkivka to compensate for the losses on the Zaporizhia front; They move chaotically through the streets, begging locals for food and a chance to wash.

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