WASHINGTON (April 20, 2023)--The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently warned that a potentially deadly fungus has been spreading rapidly through health care facilities. Public health experts warn that the alarming infections are resistant to drugs and have been reported in 27 states and the District of Columbia.
Lance B Price, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at the George Washington University, can discuss the current outbreak and its implications. He can also discuss how the overuse of antifungal drugs has contributed to this health crisis.
“The C. auris outbreak is alarming,” says Price and a co-author in a recent op-ed they published on this topic. “But even scarier is the issue it highlights: We’re not taking appropriate steps to monitor, track and stop fungal pathogens that can infect people and resist current treatments.”
To interview Lance B. Price, professor of environmental and occupational health at GW Milken Institute School of Public Health, please contact Kathy Fackelmann at kfackelmann
gwu [dot] edu (kfackelmann[at]gwu[dot]edu)