Deadly Fungal Outbreaks Are on the Rise Since Covid
- New data shows wider geographic spread since pandemic
- Some fungi can adapt to warmer temperatures, research shows
A largely unnoticed surge of rare but deadly fungi is accelerating around the world, helped by the Covid-19 pandemic and a warming planet that appears to be training them to survive at higher and higher temperatures.
While the pandemic’s grisly scenes of packed intensive care units and rows of patients on intubators have largely faded from public view, its legacy in the form of driving fungal spread is only now being understood by doctors and scientists.