It's not as unusual as it seems.
Fungi being more likely to grow in humans are one of the underestimated consequences of climate change which we might run into in the future.
Fungi being more likely to grow in humans are one of the underestimated consequences of climate change which we might run into in the future.
Why would climate change lead to more Fungal growth in humans? Genuine question
- Fungi often don't parasite humans as we are "to warm" (and many other reasons) but with increasing warmer weather fungi will likely adapt to it and in turn become humans become increasingly closer to be "an interesting habitat"
- Changes in weather changing how fungi grow and where they grow making it more likely for existing problematic fungi to come in contact with humans.
Take all of this with a grain of salt it was quite a while ago that I read about it and I mainly remembered the conclusion.
But there had been cases where due to (likely) climate change induced changes in weather fungi started infecting humans, it was either in the US or Australia. So sorry again not much useful information.
I guess it might have been better to not post this without trying to find the articles/dokus I had read/seen about it given that I don't remember to many details besides the conclusion I had.
(EDIT: Try searching "warmer weather fungi humans" at least on duckduckgo this yielded some articles about this which are not the sources I had read and I still have to read and evaluate them, but might find some useful information)