(Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo credit should read WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images) William West/AFP/Getty ImagesĬlimate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says Researchers at the University of Melbourne discovered three variants of the multidrug-resistant bug in samples from 10 countries, including strains in Europe that cannot be tamed by any drug currently on the market. ![]() A superbug resistant to all known antibiotics that can cause "severe" infections or even death is spreading undetected through hospital wards across the world, scientists in Australia warned on September 3. Jean Lee, a PhD student at Melbourne's Doherty Institute, displays the superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018. Scientists are finding new fungi all the time – they found four just last year – but not all of them are a threat to humans. Many millions of fungi are good for the environment, but a few hundred can cause disease in humans. (Saprotrophic describes an organism that feeds on dead organic matter.) “Fungi are just seeking sources of food, and in the eyes of many saprotropic fungi, we are just food,” he added. Matthew Fisher, a professor of medicine in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London whose research focuses on emerging pathogenic fungi. ![]() And we’ve had to adapt this exquisite immune system that we have to defend against spores, because many of them are potentially pathogenic,” said Dr. We’ve lived with them ever since we made beds in the Savanna 500,000 years ago, before we even evolved into modern humans. “We’re always surrounded by fungal spores. ![]() What scientists say about the real-life zombie fungi that inspired 'The Last of Us' Anna Torv, Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal the Last of Us episode 2 Liane Hentscher/HBO
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