A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in the Climate of Secrecy

nytimes.com - by Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs - April 6, 2019

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus is infecting patients in hospitals and nursing homes around the world. The fungus seems to have emerged in several locations at once, not from a single source . . .

. . . Individual institutions and national, state and local governments have been reluctant to publicize outbreaks of resistant infections, arguing there is no point in scaring patients — or prospective ones.

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