CDC sounds alarm over deadly fungal infection spreading rapidly in US hospitals.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned of an "alarming" rise in cases of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris in healthcare facilities across the US, with infected patients nearly doubling in 2021. Candida auris poses a serious threat to patients already weakened by other conditions, triggering serious and invasive complications as it spreads into the body's systems. Nearly all of the samples tested of Candida auris are already resistant to at least one class of antifungal drug, and one in three patients with invasive infections die.