A deadly, drug-resistant fungus has infected more than 7,000 people across 27 U.S. states, including Mississippi, in 2025, ...

The chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), or Bd for short, is considered one of the causes of the worldwide ...

A cluster of rare fungal infections was found in two pet cats and a vet who treated them, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday in a report in the journal Emerging Infectious ...

The bottom view of a plate culture containing the fungus Trichophyton mentagrophytes. From the reverse, the color is pale, yellowish-brown or reddish-brown. The genus, Trichophyton, inhabits the soil, ...

Families in communities near Nashville are sharing emotional stories of loved ones grappling with histoplasmosis, a serious ...

Bark beetles moving between trees routinely carry two fungi that are responsible for the Dutch elm tree disease outbreak.

Kansas health officials say dozens of people were stricken by a hard to treat and potentially deadly fungus in 2025. The ...

With the emergence of cicada broods this summer, scientists have begun collecting specimens of cicada infected with a mysterious parasitic fungus that takes over the insects and turns them into ...

A wildlife researcher in the Peruvian Amazon has discovered a tarantula infected by the "zombie fungus" Cordyceps, a rare and eerie find."It took over his nervous system and forced him to come to this ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...