Drug-resistant fungus spreads through hospitals

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Greece ranks 2nd successful the European Union for Candida auris infections, with 852 cases recorded implicit the past decade, according to a caller study from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released connected Thursday. Only Spain has reported much cases. The drug-resistant fungus spreads rapidly successful hospitals and attacks critically sick patients. 

Over 4,000 cases person been reported EU-wide successful the past decade, with 1,346 cases successful 2023 unsocial – the highest fig since the fungus was archetypal detected successful Europe successful 2014.

“There is simply a percent of patients who mightiness person been capable to flooded their hospitalization illness, but didn’t marque it owed to corruption from this fungus,” said Diamantis Plachouras, the ECDC’s lawman manager for microbial absorption and healthcare-associated infections. During an April 2024 ECDC visit to Greece, officials recovered the fungus had spread passim the wellness system, with hundreds of cases successful aggregate hospitals.