What If Fungi Win?

af Arturo (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) Casadevall

Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them?Humans and fungi share 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already finding ways to resist treatment. Among other lifeforms, bats, amphibians, and es... (Læs mere)