By Brendan Mcfadden For Mailonline
Published: 00:54 BST, 29 April 2019 | Updated: 01:06 BST, 29 April 2019
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A Japanese super fungus has killed eight patients in UK hospitals.
Candida auris, which can enter the bloodstream and spread throughout the body, causing serious infections, has been found in 25 hospitals.
Around 50 patients survived and 200 more patients had 'skin 'colonised' by the fungus, before it entered their bodies via wounds.
Candida auris, which can enter the bloodstream and spread throughout the body, causing serious infections, has been found in 25 hospitals
Public Health England (PHE) said the fungus, which was first identified in 2009, hasn't been recorded as the cause of the victim's death as the patients were already 'seriously ill'.
A spokesman told The Sun: 'What seems to make Candida auris somewhat unique is that it spreads so
