Cases of a deadly fungus have tripled in the U.S. from 2019 to 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Candida auris was reported in the U.S. in 2016 ...

However, lethal fungi ... be carrying the fungus externally, also tripled over the same time period, from 1,077 in 2019 to 4,040 in 2021. The data comes from a new report by CDC researchers ...

A lethal, hard-to-treat fungal infection is spreading across the U.S. and becoming increasingly resistant to the few drugs available to treat it, CDC researchers warned on Monday, part of a ...

The CDC findings were reported March 20, the same day that study in Annals of Internal Medicine said cases of the dangerous fungus had tripled in the U.S. over the last three years, and that 27 ...

Cases of a potentially deadly fungus have risen to an alarming rate — sparking a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it is an "urgent threat" in a recent ...

Cases detected through screening tripled from 2020 ... Candida auris is a drug-resistant fungus that can cause outbreaks in health care facilities, according to the CDC. The fungus can infect ...

A dangerous fungal infection that the CDC warned in March was spreading to ... While the number of U.S. cases of Candida auris tripled between 2020 and 2022, few states have seen such rampant ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm over rising cases of Candida auris, a fungus that is resistant ... to treat Candida auris — tripled in 2021.

A warning this week by researchers at the CDC, about the spread of the potentially lethal fungus across the U.S., highlights the threat of other potentially dangerous fungal pathogens you’ve ...

LAS VEGAS —Federal public health officials have identified southern Nevada as the place in the U.S. with the highest number of cases of a potentially lethal fungus that is resistant to common ...

The fungus is also causing serious infections in patients in New Jersey. The state went from reporting 17 new clinical cases in 2016 to 75 new clinical cases in 2023, according to the CDC.

There really is dangerous fungus among us. One of the most suspenseful scenes in the hit HBO series “The Last of Us” comes in its pilot episode, when a scientist predicts that the end of the ...