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Untreatable 'superbug' fungus that resists all drugs detected in Texas and DC
Andrea MichelsonFri, July 23, 2021, 12:22 PM
A petri dish holding the yeast Candida auris in a laboratory in Wuerzburg, Germany, in 2018. Nicolas Armer/picture alliance via Getty ImagesMore
- A drug-resistant fungus has killed three people in Dallas and Washington, DC.
- The especially dangerous strain of C. auris is resistant to all three major antifungals.
- Some of the people who caught it had not received antifungals, and the strain is spreading.
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Untreatable 'superbug' fungus that resists all drugs detected in Texas and DC
The C. auris strain is spreading within hospitals and nursing homes in two separate outbreaks across the US, according to the CDC.
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