How an invasive fungus got health officials’ attention. Try as they might, the infection control specialists at Royal Brompton Hospital could not eradicate the invasive fungus that was attacking already gravely ill patients in the intensive care unit. Enhanced cleaning didn’t stop the dangerous bug from spreading from one patient to the next in the 296-bed hospital. Neither did segregating infected patients, to keep them from spreading the fungus. Eventually they resorted to a last-ditch move no hospital ever wants to have to take. They temporarily shut their ICU.

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