Bread, Cheese, and Deadly Infections – Unfriendly and Untreatable Fungi

Send a text Fungi can be our friends. They’re responsible, after all, for some of our favorite foods and drinks, including beer, bread, wine, and cheese. Penicillin, the parent of all antibiotics, comes from the fungal family as well. But fungi can also cause disease in humans, animals, and plants. In this episode of One World, One Health, Dr. Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo, a research scientist at the Mycology Reference Laboratory of Spain head of the mold unit, explains how fungal diseases a...