Why is Candida Auris Creating a Healthcare Panic?
Candida auris has been making headlines this week. The drug resistant disease has killed 617 patients in 12 states. Compared to the 23,000 US deaths caused by antibiotic-resistant bacterium each year, why is C. auris creating a healthcare panic? Almost half of patients infected with C. auris do not survive. “We were really hoping it wasn’t here yet, to be honest with you,” Tom Chiller, MD, MPHTM, chief …
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