At least three cases of Candida auris fungus in Singapore since 2012

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A hospital here has seen at least three cases of the Candida auris fungus since 2012. Two Singaporean researchers highlighted the incidents in a letter to a medical journal last July. The fungus is spreading around the globe, infecting patients in hospitals...

Of the three patients here, one recovered, one died, and another’s condition was inconclusive as the patient had left the country.

One of her wounds was infected with multiple organisms including C. auris. She was discharged four months later with the wounds healing well. According to the New York Times, the fungus is so invasive that even after the death of a patient in a hospital in the United States, the germ lived on, infecting the entire room.

 

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