Cases of the fungus in which it did not respond to antifungal medicine tripled in 2021. It can be deadly, but does not seem to have adverse effects on healthy people.
This undated photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory. The U.S. toll of drug-resistant"superbug" infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials said Tuesday, July 12, 2022.This undated photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory. The U.S.
About 30% to 60% of infected people have died from the yeast, though that is"based on information from a limited number of patients,"
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