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Blight review: The threat of a fungi-fuelled pandemic

Blight review: The threat of a fungi-fuelled pandemic

Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus, is an rising menace for these with weakened immunity

James Cavallini/SPL

Blight
Emily Monosson (W. W. Norton)

EVEN when you haven’t seen the TV present The Final of Us, by now you’ll in all probability have heard somebody describe its terrifying depiction of a world overrun by a brain-eating fungus – a Cordyceps – that evolves to contaminate people as a consequence of warming temperatures. The present has completed for fungal pathogens what Jaws did for shark assaults: it targeted consideration on an neglected menace and other people freaked out.

In contrast to big, vicious sharks, …

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