Global panic: an incurable super-bacterium causes panic: "silent" governments face a mushroom that kills 60% | World | New

Candida Auris, the super-fungal infection at the origin of global panic, can infect everyone, but more particularly concerns people whose immune system is compromised. The fungus is deadly – it kills about 60% of infected patients. Scientists have described the infection as "incurable" in the midst of the panic that C. Aurus is becoming an "urgent global threat."

Despite the rapid spread of infection around the world, public health organizations and local hospitals with confirmed cases remain silent on the fungus.

Fungi spread very easily and can seize a hospital room, which leads some hospitals to keep calm the recognition of an outbreak.

International organizations have attempted to minimize the scale of the threat, claiming that public recognition would trigger "hysteria".

According to the CDC, the symptoms of the fungus can be difficult to detect because patients are often already sick and only a laboratory test can identify the superbug.

Candida Auris can cause different types of infections, including blood infection, wound infection and ear infections.

The symptoms resemble those of the flu: fever, body aches and fatigue.

Tom Chiller, head of the fungal branch of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), described C. Auris as "a creature of the black lagoon".

He continued, "It's bubbling and now it's everywhere."

Dr. Lynn Sosa, Connecticut's Associate Epidemiologist, told The New York Times that she considered Candida auris as "almost unbeatable and hard to identify."

The fungus was only observed in the United States for the first time in 2013.

Since then, at least 587 cases of emerging fungal infection, confirmed by US health authorities as "a serious threat to global health," have been confirmed in recent years.

David S. Perlin, Scientific Director of the Hackensack Meridian Health Discovery and Innovation Center, said: "It took us all by surprise,"

"We do not really know why this bug has exploded all over the world.

"We see it in hospitals, we obviously have a problem in New York and New Jersey, but we see it in Spain, the United Kingdom, South Africa, elsewhere."