What is the best strategy to mitigate the impact of fungal infections in people? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Fungal infections of people are on the rise, Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins professor and author of “Will the Fungi Win?” states. That’s true because climate change is stimulating the organisms to become more capable of thriving at body temperatures, which used to be too hot for them. Casadevall says don’t panic yet.

Casadevall: The way to prepare is science when I went to medical school I was taught two things: retroviruses are a curiosity for studying cancer, they don't cause human disease. 2 years later HIV shows up. I was told coronaviruses only cause sniffles. Pandemic. Medicine is constantly surprised. The best insurance policy for humanity is to spend on science. If you look at the COVID response within a year there were vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, antivirals and rapid tests that you could do at home.   :33

Casadevall is betting on human ingenuity. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.