An Asbury Park native, she graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1982.
She eventually began working as a radio disc jockey, landing gigs at a string of stations in the New York and Philadelphia markets.
This disease can colonize a healthy person and they may not have symptoms, but that colony can spread to another person and make them sick. In hospitals, C. Auris can colonize on a person and then be spread around by objects as well as people.