https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can... > Over the last fiv

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can... > Over the last five years, it has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela, swept through a hospital in Spain, forced a prestigious British medical center to shut down its intensive care unit, and taken root in India, Pakistan and South Africa. > Recently C. auris reached New York, New Jersey and Illinois, leading the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to a list of germs deemed “urgent threats.” ... > C. auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major antifungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.