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Two Chinese scientists were charged with conspiracy and smuggling on Tuesday after attempting to clear US customs with a plant disease-causing fungus that officials called a “potential ...

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The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls Aspergillus fumigatus the leading cause of invasive mould infections in people, with a death rate as high as 33% for those infected.

That’s unfair to the public. Finally, the CDC must join us in the 21st century. The agency’s infection-control guidance for hospitals is straight out of the 1950s.

In 2023, the CDC identified it “an emerging fungus considered an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat, spread at an alarming rate in U.S. healthcare facilities.” ...

In March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported more than 4,000 new clinical cases of C. auris, dubbing it an “urgent antimicrobial (AR) threat.” The fungus can ...

Candida auris, a fungus that can be life-threatening to sick people, is spreading at a rapid rate in U.S. healthcare systems, according to experts. Here's what you should know.

In brief Candida auris infections have surged from 52 cases in 2016 to over 4,500 in 2023, CDC data shows The fungus kills more than 1 in 3 infected and is resistant to many antifungal treatments ...

That argument was never truly settled. Most scientists made Prototaxites out to be a sort of humungous fungus, but the field as a whole was never certain. That, however, may have just changed.

At that time, the Center for Disease Control stated that the fungus was “considered an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat, spread at an alarming rate in U.S. healthcare facilities.” ...