Deadly drug-resistant fungal infections rising in the U.S.

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Candida auris can “colonize” the skin and spread easily to surfaces.

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Oliver Kurzai, director of the National Reference Center for Invasive Fungus Infections, holds a petri dish containing the yeast Candida auris in a laboratory at Würzburg University in Würzburg, Germany, in 2018.Nicolas Armer / dpa / picture alliance via Getty Images file

July 3, 2026, 6:30 AM EDT

By Lily Alvino

A potentially deadly type of fungus that is almost untreatable continues to pose severe threats to healthcare facilities across the U.S., a new government study found.

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