Browsing: Fungus

Fungi are ubiquitous in nature and are mainly the opportunistic infections which occur whenever the immunity of humans fails them.…

A man from Kolkata becomes the first person in the world to get infected by a potentially fatal plant fungus. The plant mycologist contracted the infection from close contact with decaying material, plant mushrooms, and various plant fungi as part of his research.

Over the past two decades, an amphibian heart failure-causing fungus has spread throughout Africa, endangering the continent’s amphibians. Hundreds of…