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Monitoring fungal spores in the outdoor air can predict surges in flu and COVID-19 infections, especially during the fall, according to a new study. The study is presented at ASM Microbe 2025 in ...

Monitoring fungal spores in the outdoor air can predict surges in flu and COVID-19 infections, especially during the fall, according to a new study.

Eventually, Chaudhary would like to catalog mycelium traits, but the team started by examining fungal spores: the microscopic, thick-walled clumps of cells that fungi use to reproduce and spread.

But the recipe also needs specific conditions for the yeast to activate. In the rose garden, the fungal spore is the yeast, and the susceptible rose is the flour.

Scientists have gained some guarded optimism in efforts to protect and save bats from white-nose disease. Now there's a whole other fungus species to worry about.

If the aspergillosis infection spreads, the fungus “starts to grow and basically kind of eat you from the inside out, saying it really bluntly,” van Rijn told CNN.

Pathogenic Fungal Spores Found Surviving Miles Above Our Heads In Earth's Stratosphere These tiny spores are traveling and surviving at altitudes higher than commercial planes fly.