Focus: Environmental Services

CDC: Almost half infected by Candida auris die in 90 days

The fungus, which preys on people with weakened immune systems, is spreading around the world


A fungus called Candida auris is spreading around the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says almost half of those infected in 90 days, according to an article on the Gulf News website. 

It preys on people with weakened immune systems and in the last five years has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, a hospital in Spain, a British medical center and has taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa.

It has also reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois. The CDC has added it to its list of “urgent threats.”

After a man died in a Brooklyn hospital, tests showed the fungus was everywhere in his room. The hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.

Read the article.



April 11, 2019


Topic Area: Infection Control


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