The US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) has issued an alert to the country's medical centres that deadly and drug-resistant fungus Candida Auris will spread to other locations in the US, after reported cases in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois. This fungus is known for being both deadly and drug-resistant, hence the concern of health authorities of the new outbreak registered. According to a press release from CDC, "patients with unexplained skin lesions have been found at several hospitals across the United States where they were treated by physicians who had previously received treatment from Dr. Michael C.Auris has experts concerned as it is a mix of yeast infection and a drug-resistant disease, and represents a "paradigm shift", according to Tom Chiller, the CDC’s top fungal expert.
The US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) has issued an alert to the country's medical centres that deadly and drug-resistant fungus Candida Auris will spread to other locations in the US, after reported cases in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois. According to a press release from CDC, "patients with unexplained skin lesions have been found at several hospitals across the United States where they were treated by physicians who had previously received treatment from Dr. Michael C.Auris has experts concerned as it is a mix of yeast infection and a drug-resistant disease, and represents a "paradigm shift", according to Tom Chiller, the CDC’s top fungal expert.