Some fungal diseases in humans no longer respond to medicines, which increases the risk of severe illness and death as well ...

The WHO warns of rising resistance in fungal diseases, posing global health risks. Candida infections are increasingly tough to treat, affecting vulnerable people with weakened immune systems.

WHO said that fungal diseases, including drug-resistant infections like Candida, are increasingly affecting immunocompromised patients, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, living with HIV, or ...

Fungal threats have remained dangerously overlooked, said Justin Beardsley, an infectious diseases doctor and University of Sydney researcher who contributed to both WHO reports. “Fungus is not ...

In a groundbreaking move, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first-ever comprehensive reports highlighting the escalating global health threat posed by invasive fungal infections.

One of the cleanest places beyond Earth may be making its residents ill. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station ...

But for infectious disease specialists like Peter Chin-Hong, one of the most insidious threats lurking in hospitals and clinics today is fungal. Chin-Hong’s case list is long: a healthy 29-year ...

Zoonotic and other infectious diseases are emerging and reemerging rapidly in recent times owing to altered climatic conditions, changing lifestyles, and unhealthy living conditions. The WHO listed 20 ...

Chickens are able to pass bird flu to humans. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler ... Health is focused on a specific class of zoonotic diseases called orthopoxviruses — which includes the viruses ...