Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus, is an emerging threat for those with weakened immunity James Cavallini/SPL
Blight
Emily Monosson (W. W. Norton)
EVEN if you haven’t seen the TV show The Last of Us, by now you will probably have heard someone describe its terrifying depiction of a world overrun by a brain-eating fungus – a Cordyceps – that evolves to infect humans due to warming temperatures. The show has done for fungal pathogens what Jaws did for shark attacks: it focused attention on an overlooked threat and people freaked out.
Unlike giant, vicious sharks, however, fungal pathogens are common. In fact,…
