EIGHT patients have died in UK hospitals from a shapeshifting Japanese super fungus.
About 50 more Brits survived being infected with the deadly Candida auris, which is resistant to anti-fungus drugs.
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The killer infection has been found in 25 British hospitals, with 200 more patients’ skin “colonised” by the fungus before it entered via wounds.
But it hasn’t been recorded as the cause of death as victims were already seriously ill, Public Health England revealed.
A spokesman said: “What seems to make Candida auris somewhat unique is that it spreads so easily from person to person.
“Once in the bloodstream, it circulates and multiplies, causing sepsis [blood poisoning].
“Yeast cells can also deposit in organs [liver, spleen, brain] causing abscesses, or forming vegetations on heart valves.”
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The salt-loving fungus emerged 10 years ago in Japan and flourishes on human skin.
In 2017, one of the biggest UK outbreaks hit 76 patients at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital.
Dr David Eyre said: “We were all scratching our heads.”
