Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!New cases of a 'deadly fungal infection' that is resistant to all existing treatments are spreading through nursing homes and hospitals across the US for the first time, health officials said.Worrying outbreaks of Candida auris, a yeast infection first identified in Asia in 2009, were reported in a Washington DC care home and at two hospitals in Dallas, Texas.Several of the cases showed themselves as resistant to three major classes of medications.
Dr Meghan Lyman, a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said: “This is really the first time we’ve started seeing clustering of resistance in which patients seemed to be getting the infections from each.
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