A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

Re:A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resi... by hospitate on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:25PM (#19687314)

I was scrolling on Weibo the other day and came across a news story about a killer fungus sweeping across the USA. Several deaths with 60% percent chance of death, they said. Well that was certainly news to me so I googled it. Nothing. Not a single shred of information. I wrote it off as shoddy Chinese journalism.

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Re:A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resi... by snakeboy on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:38PM (#19687375)

I don't think anyone was really reporting on it notably until a big NYT[0] article a few weeks ago.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can...

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Re:A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resi... by blablabla123 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @03:02AM (#19689258)

Yeah when I read the first time about it 2 weeks ago I also found almost nothing on google. Also the Wikipedia article doesn't have the depth it deserves I guess.

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Re:A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resi... by chapium on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @10:45PM (#19688330)

Social media spreading poorly sourced articles strikes again.

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