A deadly fungal infection is spreading at "an alarming rate" inside health facilities and long-term-care hospitals across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

A drug-resistant and potentially deadly fungus has been spreading rapidly through U.S. health care facilities, a new government study finds. The fungus, a type of yeast called Candida auris, or C.

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Fungal diagnostic evaluations for blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, or histoplasmosis were rare in patients with unspecified CAP.