Fungal infections: How climate change is advancing cases of Valley fever
Extreme weather is driving a deadly fungus further into the American West.
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Extreme weather is driving a deadly fungus further into the American West.
These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them
A team led by researchers at the Valley Fever Center for Excellence successfully tested a Valley fever vaccine for dogs, with two doses providing high levels of protection against the fungal disease.
How Research Not Intended To Be About Disease Can End up Being Medically Relevant 23/02/2021 fruiting body. Image: Bruno in Columbus/Wikimedia Commons. In 1989, in my newly set up laboratory at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, I began to explore how free-living soil amoebae called cellular slime moulds respond to anti-fungal compounds called phytoalexins. Plants make phytoalexins in response to fungal attack and injury. It is likely that amoebae encounter these compounds in the soil around plant roots. This research led us, in ten years, to discover...