More than 7,000 confirmed clinical cases of Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that thrives in hospitals and long-term care facilities, have been recorded across the United States since national ...

Candida auris cases more than doubled from 2022 to 2024, CDC reports. How much of the rise in this drug-resistant fungus is ...

Candida auris infections are rapidly rising across the U.S., raising concerns over drug resistance, hospital spread, and ...

The fungus has another unusual means of spread: Cats can sneeze out infectious yeast, researchers reported in Medical Mycology in 2022. “When the cat’s sneezing, it’s going on the surface, it’s going ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered that a fungus deadly to people with weakened immune systems can ...

A warning this week by researchers at the CDC, about the spread of the potentially lethal fungus across the U.S., highlights the threat of other potentially dangerous fungal pathogens you’ve probably ...

Parks Canada crews are at work in Alberta's bat caves, spreading a blend of bacteria to try to save the flying night mammals ...

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

Cases of a potentially deadly fungus have risen to an alarming rate — sparking a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it is an "urgent threat" in a recent release ...

Scientists tested wild animals killed on Brazilian roads and found a harmful fungus, Sporothrix, inside birds, mammals, and ...

Scientists say the "hyperparasite" preys on "zombie fungus" known to infect insects before subjecting them to a gruesome death.

For example, the fungal hyperparasite Coniothyrium minitans feasts on the pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, which frequently ...