Untreatable 'superbug' fungus that resists all drugs detected in Texas and DC

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Untreatable 'superbug' fungus that resists all drugs detected in Texas and DC​

Andrea Michelson
Fri, 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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An untreatable fungus is spreading in two Dallas-area hospitals and a nursing home in Washington, DC, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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