Infection with the pathogenic yeast fungus Candida auris (C. auris) can wreak havoc on the health of hospital patients and ...

Monosson is the author of Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst There are many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen—from ...

One fungus, two species, millions of dead bats: A study published in the journal Nature has analyzed 5,000 samples of a fungus that is responsible for the largest recorded pathogen-caused mortality in ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to help spread its spores to new victims. Later expeditions found similar ...

The premise of The Last of Us is that the cordyceps fungus turns people into creatures that do the fungus's bidding. From a scientific perspective, the new HBO show The Last Of Us is telling us a ...

A fungal disease could soon bring infected cicadas to your backyard. Massospora cicadina is a fungal pathogen that infects only 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas, like this year's Brood XIV.The ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

(CNN) — Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet heats up, new research predicts — and the world is not prepared. Fungi ...