New U.S.
Sunday, 8/2, 07:55 PM
What the research actually says about the drug-resistant yeast in American hospitals
- Headlines this week describe a deadly superbug confirmed in 23 states.
- The organism is Candida auris, and it is a yeast, not a bacterium.
- We could not verify the 23-state figure against any source we can reach, so we are not printing it.