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Fears deadly fungus could be the next global medical emergency after coronavirus

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coronavirus pandemic is, we are told, a once-in-a-century plague that is the worst outbreak of its kind in living memory. But that doesn’t mean we can stop worrying about deadly diseases with the potential to rapidly spread across borders.

Epidemiologists have already identified several contenders for the next global medical emergency. One fungal infection, Candida auris , has been described as “almost the perfect pathogen” by Johanna Rhodes, a genomic epidemiologist at Imperial College London.

First identified in 2009, where it was seen infecting the ear canal of a Japanese woman, the drug-resistant organism was spotted in patients across the globe.The first case in Europe was diagnosed at London’s Royal Brompton Hospital in June 2016.

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