Fungal pandemic threat
Discovery
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The Importance of Antifungal Treatments
Fungal infection or basic fungal infection is estimated to cause almost three times this number of deaths every year as malaria. We actually only have three classes of antifungal drugs we can use compared to, for example, bacterial agents and our antiviral agents where there are dozens. So everyone thinks that fungi are going to invade the world because they produce spores but they really don't. They're quite nice and friendly. so we're just pastoring this store. The reason we're behind a couple of lock doors is fungi produce spores. It's very easy to dismiss fungal infections. Because if someone goes fungal infection, the first thing that comes to my mind is some of
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