In any given year, more than a billion people have what the Microbiology Society considers “superficial” fungal infections.
that may in part be due to changes in routine infection-control practices. Infection can affect the heart, central nervous system, eyes, bones and internal organs. It is resistant to many classes of antifungal treatments but can sometimes be treated with antifungal medicines called echinocandins., a mold that can be found just about everywhere, may cause pulmonary disease in people with weakened immune systems.
Fisher said our bodies are generally pretty good at protecting against fungal infections, but “chinks open up in our immune system.”People who are most at risk of a serious fungal infection are those with underlying conditions like HIV, cancer or diabetes and those with compromised immune systems because of their age, a disease or the drugs they take.
Others are vulnerable to the more severe consequences of fungal infections because they don’t have access to medicines more commonly available in the West.
There have also been more opportunistic fungal infections during the Covid-19 pandemic, just like there have been after flu epidemics, said Dr. Matthew Kasson, a mycologist at
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