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Four people in Washington state have tested positive this month for a rare fungal infection that can be deadly. It’s the state’s first known outbreak of the fungus, called Candida auris, according to Seattle and King County health officials, though one locally acquired case was detected there in July. The cluster comes as Candida auris […]
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The black fungus Candida auris, which is rapidly spreading across the US, ‘colonises’ the patient’s skin before finding its way into the blood stream through open wounds and, if this happens there is a 30 to 60 percent mortality rate The Candida auris fungus growing in a petri dish(Shawn Lockhart/AP/REX/Shutterstock) Drug resistant deadly black fungus […]
Comment on this story Comment A deadly and highly-drug resistant fungus is spreading at “an alarming rate” in long-term care hospitals and other health facilities caring for very sick people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday. Fungal infections from the yeast strain known as
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