A 61-year-old man has become the first person in the world to contract a plant fungal disease, amid heightened concerns about the threat they pose due to climate change and resistance to available treatments.
The unnamed man, who worked as a plant mycologist, went to hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata after suffering from a hoarse voice, cough, fatigue and difficulties swallowing for three months.
“There are literally hundreds of millions of fungal species and only a fraction that cause infections in humans but we are starting to see this strange phenomena of fungal infections that were not known to cause infections in humans, now causing infections,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, the Founder and President of the One Health Trust.
The pandemic has also exacerbated this threat. In 2021, at least 45,000 people in India who had developed Covid-19 contracted a secondary fungal infection, Mucormycosis,also diverted resources away from researching and treating Among them was mycetoma – a “devastating” chronic condition that slowly eats away at flesh and has been described as a “real life Last of Us” infection.
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