Our bodies are home to millions of fungi that, for the most part, are completely harmless. However, they can sometimes change from peaceful residents into dangerous invaders. One such is Candida ...

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ANGWIN, Calif. (AP) — Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow ...

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Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

A rare but potentially deadly fungal infection known as histoplasmosis is sickening a cluster of people in Tennessee. Dozens of histoplasmosis cases have been reported in middle Tennessee since last ...

A potentially deadly fungus has been spreading throughout Tennessee, health officials have warned. Over 35 cases of histoplasmosis, a lung infection caused by exposure to the fungus Histoplasma ...

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus has been reported in 27 U.S. states, including California, according to federal data. Martha Dominguez via Unsplash A deadly, drug-resistant fungus has infected more ...

A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil. Genetic evidence and trade data suggest the fungus hitchhiked across the world ...

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus. Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A deadly fungus has now spread to Connecticut. State labs confirm several cases of a yeast, a kind of fungus, called Candida auris. Dr. Scott Roberts, an infectious disease ...