The Beijing Center for disease control and prevention recently released an official science report, saying that healthy people usually do not get infected with candida otoensis, which poses a low health risk to the general public.

Otocandida, a fungus that can cause severe infections in hospitalized cases.

Candida otoensis has only been discovered in recent years, first in Japan in 2009.By retrospective examination of stored candida otoensis, it first appeared in Korea in 1996.Cases of candidiasis have been reported on all continents, with 587 confirmed cases reported in the United States as of February 28, 2019.

A small number of cases have also been reported in our country.Since healthy people do not usually get candida otoensis, the threat to the general public from candida otoensis is low, and the public need not panic or take special precautions.