The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says two woman in America have tested positive and the infection is spreading
Health professionals have warned that "the world is not prepared" after two women were confirmed to have been infected with a new highly contagious fungal disease. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention , said the patients from the United States, aged 28 and 47, tested positive for the ringworm, also known as tinea, reports the Mirror.
The 28-year-old woman says the scaly rashes first appeared on her body in the middle of 2021 and sought medical attention in December that year. Mr Denning added: "The infection itself is obvious to see and highly inflammatory in the skin." The second woman, 47, started to get huge rashes while she was travelling abroad, in Bangladesh. When she got home she tried applying creams to try and get ride of her rashes but they 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.
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