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Ministry leaves sector to prepare for ‘bigger threat than Ebola’

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Hospital precautions have to be stepped up with Candida. PHOTO: Luis Melendez on Unsplash

New Zealand hospitals know how to cope with highly contagious and drug-resistant bugs but, so far, have had no specific guidance on the newest such threat. Virginia McMillan reports

The often-deadly Candida auris is a hazard-in-waiting for New Zealand hospitals, staff and patients, say experts worried there’s a lack of national gu, Arthur Morris, Clinical microbiologist Arthur Morris says the health sector has a general understanding but not a specific response to Candida auris