Climate Change's Silent Threat: The Fungal Awakening

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We're witnessing the quiet emergence of a global threat that could redefine public health in the coming decades. While the world fixates on flashy disaster headlines and political theater, a more insidious danger is evolving in the shadows of our warming planet—pathogenic fungi that are adapting to higher temperatures, including our body temperature, with alarming speed.

The recent Heliox podcast deep dive into fungal pathogens and climate change revealed a reality that should disturb us all: the environmental shifts we've set in motion are creating perfect conditions for fungal evolution that threatens human health in ways we're only beginning to understand.

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