Among patients diagnosed with invasive mold disease at four Atlanta hospitals over five years, 45% died within 90 days, and half required a breathing tube and mechanical ventilation. Those figures come from CDC surveillance published July 30, and they attach hard numbers to an infection that the federal government does not require doctors to report at all.
The report identified 449 cases between 2020 and 2024. Because invasive mold disease is not nationally notifiable, no one has had a reliable local incidence figure for it until now.
