More extreme weather events caused by climate change and globalization mean many more infectious fungal species are increasing their habitable range and attacking unprepared hosts.
. But it’s now spreading rapidly through North America, where bats have no innate defense against the fungus and are now dying in their millions.
Many species of fungi infect a broad range of plants and animals, making them extra dangerous. “Fungi have this capacity to actually exterminate their hosts, which a virus wouldn’t necessarily do,” Dee Carter, professor of microbiology and mycology at the University of Sydney, told The Daily Beast. “The fungus doesn’t care, because it’s got another host.
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