Scientists who studied candida auris fungus warn global warming may lead to diseases 'we don't even know about right now'

A CDC official warned the fungus 'is behaving in unexpected and concerning ways, causing severe disease in countries across the globe, including the United States.'

started infecting humans relatively recently because it adapted to higher ambient temperatures resulting from global warming, such that it was able to survive at human temperatures.as a human pathogen is that it appeared in three different continents at roughly the same time and that the three isolates are genetically distant," he said.

Candidawas found to grow at higher temperatures than the other fungi. The other fungi also couldn't survive the body temperatures of mammals, unlike Candidahas evolved to withstand higher temperatures.suggested in a statement that this is unlikely to be an isolated case."Global warming may lead to new fungal diseases that we don't even know about right now," he said.

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