The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) already described the fungus, which kills up to 60 percent of people it infects, as an ‘urgent threat’ in 2019. 

But the new research has revealed case numbers more than tripled across America between 2020 and 2021, with multidrug-resistant strains also becoming more common. 

Most transmission occurs in healthcare facilities, especially among residents of long-term care facilities or among persons with indwelling devices or mechanical ventilators. Healthy people do not usually get sick, but among the frail and vulnerable, it kills between 30 and 60 percent.

‘Urgent threat’ of highly contagious FUNGUS that has a kill rate of 60% and is growing across the US | Daily Mail Online