American health officials have issued a warning following a spike of genital fungus cases in New York City earlier this year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a note ...

At a town meeting last year, Beth Downs held up photos from Tennessee and Kentucky, showing stop signs and trees covered in an ugly black mold called whiskey fungus.

A fungus that causes genital infections has seen a spike in cases in New York City, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. The fungus, named Trichophyton mentagrophytes ...

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Wildlife officials confirmed the presence in California of a bat-killing fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Millions of bats in North America have died from white-nose syndrome. California ...

INFORMATION AT THIS TIME. WELL, AN INVASIVE FUNGUS THAT IS DEADLY TO BATS HAS NOW BEEN FOUND ACROSS THE SACRAMENTO REGION. THE FUNGUS HAS BEEN KNOWN TO WIPE OUT MILLIONS OF BATS IN NORTH AMERICA.

A sinister fungus is spreading through California’s bat populations, threatening their survival just as the spooky season takes flight. (Nenad Milosevic/Unsplash) First detected on the East Coast ...

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But for nearly two decades, North American bats have been facing a deadly threat themselves: a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome. Ali Rogin speaks with New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer ...