Candida Auris Is Spreading in U.S. Hospitals & Care Homes: CDC
HBO’s post-apocalyptic show about society destroyed by a devastating fungal pandemic, The Last of Us, is fiction. However, lethal fungi that can infect humans are very much a reality, and one of the biggest threats today is Candida auris.The dangerous and difficult-t0-fight fungal infection, often deadly for the immunocompromised, is tearing through U.S. hospitals and other healthcare facilities at an “alarming rate,” according to a Centers for Disease Control news statement published Monday. The fungus, a yeast called…