Two patients have been struck down
Two patients have been infected with the first cases of a highly contagious fungal disease. Aged 28 and 47, the unnamed sufferers have the first cases of the drug-resistant ringworm, also known as tinea, after suffering rash symptoms.
"The huge Indian diaspora has already seen this fungus spread to other countries including Canada and Germany, and now the USA." Meanwhile, a second woman, 47, started to get huge rashes while travelling in Bangladesh. But, despite applying creams to try and help her rash, upon her return to the US, it made no difference.
Mr Denning said medics had been treating infections successfully until a new fungal species arrived. He said: "For two decades, we have been treating these infections with oral terbinafine for 3 weeks, very successfully, until this new fungal species arrived. According to the CDC, the 47-year-old, who lives with her husband and son, were also experiencing symptoms including widespread, scaly ring-like rashes on their thighs and buttocks. The strain of ringworm was tested by officials, which came back as Trichophyton indotineae, which is currently tearing through India and other parts of South Asia.
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