The CDC's Mycotic Diseases Branch has been tracking the number of C. auris cases in the U.S. over time.
states that"30–60% of people with C. auris infections have died." These statements are alarming, but they are even more alarming without key context.The apparently high mortality rate from C. auris is, in large part, an artifact of the population from which positive cases of C. auris were identified: elderly hospital or long-term care inpatients who, as the CDC wrote,"had other serious illnesses that also increased their risk of death.
In healthy individuals outside of intensive health-care facilities, however, the risk of acquiring an infection and dying from it are substantially lower."C. auris is not a particular threat to young healthy people, whose immune systems can fight it off," The New York Times Forsberg, Kaitlin, et al."Candida Auris : The Recent Emergence of a Multidrug-Resistant Fungal Pathogen." Medical Mycology, vol. 57, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 1–12. DOI.org , https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myy054.
Richtel, Matt."Deadly Fungus Spread Rapidly During the Pandemic, C.D.C. Says." The New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/health/candida-auris-us-fungus.html.
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