Researchers have warned that a mysterious fungi that kill millions of people worldwide each year may soon spread significantly further – including in Australia.
In a chilling echo of the popular video game TV series adaptation The Last of Us – a post-apocalyptic story about survival in a world ravaged by a fungal infection – the fungi could soon spread across North America, Europe, China and Russia.
That’s according to scientists from Manchester University who used computer simulations to forecast how Aspergillus, a group of fungi that can cause a life-threatening lung disease called aspergillosis, may move globally. CONTINUE READING