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Charlie Jones

Fungal outbreak linked to cheap plastic surgeries could be declared as health emergency

Health bosses are calling for a deadly fungal infection outbreak linked to discounted plastic surgeries to be declared an international emergency.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its equivalent in Mexico have asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the situation a health emergency, after two Texan women died from the infection.

The fungal spread is linked to cut-price plastic surgeries undergone in the Mexican city of Matamoros.

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