First discovered in 2009 Candida auris is an emerging fungus that presents a serious global health threat according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is often multidrug-resistant difficult to identify with standard laboratory methods and it can be misidentified in labs without specific technology. It has also caused outbreaks in healthcare settings. A NYT report on Monday showed that over the last five years C.auris has hit a neonatal unit in Venezuela swept through a hospital in Spain forced a prestigious British medical centre to shut down its intensive care unit and taken root in