THE Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported of the deadly fungal infection ‘Candida auris’ that has become harder to treat every year.
Infections from the fungus were first found in the United State in 2013 and since then, cases have been rising at an alarming rate each year.
In 2016, 53 people were confirmed to have infected with the fungus.
In 2021, the deadly fungus infected 1,471 people with an additional 4,041 individuals who carried the fungus but were not sick at the time.
Aside from rising infections, experts also warned of more cases of resistance to anti-fungal drugs.
It can be noted that fungi usually cannot survive the temperature of the human body but experts theorize that it has evolved to survive amid global warming.
“This is how climate change or global warming can bring diseases because those in the environment have to adapt to survive and then have the capacity to survive in humans,” said Arturo Casadevall, Microbiologist at Johns Hopkins University.
