It's Time to Fear the Fungi
WiredThere are plenty of things in this world that might keep you up at night. The highly transmissible Candida auris fungus had been previously unknown to science, but within a few years, cases started emerging in Venezuela, Iran, Russia, and South Africa. “If you were a tree, you'd be terrified of fungi,” says Dr. Arturo Casadevall, a microbiologist at Johns Hopkins university who studies fungal diseases. In recent years, a fungal infection called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has decimated amphibian populations around the world, with some scientists estimating that chytrid is responsible for population decline in over 500 amphibian species. One of Casadevall’s studies estimated that 95 percent of fungal species simply cannot survive at average human internal temperature.
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