<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;drug-resistant-candida-auris.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;drug-resistant-can...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.”&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; C. auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major antifungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tharkun</author><text>Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We&amp;#x27;ve had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this fungal infection. You don&amp;#x27;t need to tear down hospital rooms after an HIV patient spent time in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/health/candida-auris-fungus-chicago.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>The article indicates it&amp;#x27;s been deadly for the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. In the case of this patient, it probably entered the bloodstream via a catheter.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s probably difficult for it to infect people from skin contact.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tharkun</author><text>Is this becoming a serious problem? Or is this just getting more press attention suddenly? We&amp;#x27;ve had outbreaks and near-hysteria of various sorts (HIV, SARS, swine flu etc). But those seem orders of magnitude easier to manage than this fungal infection. You don&amp;#x27;t need to tear down hospital rooms after an HIV patient spent time in it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/health/candida-auris-fungus-chicago.html</url></story>