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18 Dec
Your Nose Microbiome Could Be Causing All Those Allergy Symptoms
A new study finds people with asthma and allergic rhinitis have different fungi in their noses than healthy people.
18 Sep
Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Are a Growing Threat Worldwide, New Study Warns
A new global analysis finds antimicrobial-resistant infections could potentially cause nearly 2 million deaths a year by 2050.
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A tough-to-treat, drug-resistant fungal infection may be as close as your local garden center, new research shows.
Investigators at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens found high levels of multidrug-resistant fungi in compost, soil and flower bulbs sold at popular retailers.
"Gardening is a nice, stress-relieving hobby. But I'm nervous for people who may not be aware that work...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- June 26, 2024
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A simple and inexpensive paper strip test could help diagnose a case of the flu, and even identify the influenza strain that caused it, a new study finds.
The test can distinguish between influenza A and B -- the two main types of seasonal flu -- as well as identifying more virulent strains like H1...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 25, 2024
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Drug-resistant fungal infections are appearing in the United States, resulting in highly contagious and tough-to-treat cases of ringworm, also known as jock itch or athlete's foot, experts warn in a pair of reports.
The two fungi reported are among a group that cause skin rashes of th...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 5, 2024
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A rare fungal infection has been diagnosed in two cats and a vet tech who treated one of the animals, a new report warns.
The three cases -- discovered in Kansas in late 2022 and early 2023 -- were caused by a fungus called Sporothrix schenckii, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in the May issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Di...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- April 11, 2024
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U.S. doctors are prescribing antifungal creams to patients with skin complaints at rates so high they could be contributing to the rise of drug-resistant infections, new research shows.
These are "severe antimicrobial-resistant superficial fungal infections, which have recently been detected in the United States," noted a team led by Jeremy Gold, a researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disea...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 11, 2024
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Tainted eye drops are back in the news, with federal regulators warning consumers not to use certain eye drops because of contamination concerns.
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- August 23, 2023
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The first U.S. cases of drug-resistant ringworm infection have been reported in New York City.
The cases of two women with highly contagious skin infections caused by Trichophyton indotineae are reported in the May 12 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's
The first season of "The Last of Us" may be over, but many folks have been left with an abiding fear of fungal infections.
Some of that fear might be well-founded in real life: A cluster of the fungal infection blastomycosis was found in dogs and humans in Wisconsin in 2022, which led to serious health consequences, U.S. health officials report.
Blastomycosis is caused by a fungus ...
- Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
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- April 3, 2023
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The hit HBO series "The Last of Us" portrays a zombie apocalypse caused by a fungal infection that hijacks human brains.
Back in the real world, there's an emerging fungal threat rampaging through the United States, a new study warns -- one that doesn't turn humans into zombies, but does endanger lives.
Candida auris has surged across the nation since the first case occurre...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 21, 2023
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HBO's hit series "The Last of Us" envisions a world decimated by a fungal apocalypse.
A real-life insect fungus called Cordyceps makes the leap into humans, turning those stricken into violent zombie-like creatures that spread it to others through bites. Society collapses in a matter of days after the fungus emerges.
But viewers can relax: There's very little real risk that...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 16, 2023
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Fungal lung infections are spreading to parts of the United States where they were once never seen -- likely a result of climate change, experts say.
To the average person, the term fungal infection may conjure up thoughts of athlete's foot or toenail problems. But some fungus species cause potentially severe respiratory infections, when a person inhales microscopic spores from fungi...
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
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- November 28, 2022
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Fungi found in the soil are causing lung infections nationwide, even in places that doctors aren't aware are at risk.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not revised maps for environmental fungi since 1969, according to a
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- November 21, 2022
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It's a phenomenon first identified in India earlier this year: Patients who have or are recovering from COVID-19 who then contract a sometimes deadly fungal infection known as mucormycosis -- also known as "black fungus."
Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said isolated cases...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- December 16, 2021
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