Wake-up Call: Rapid Increase in Human Fungal Diseases under Climate Change.

The article focuses on the rapid increase in human fungal diseases in the light of climate change. Topics discussed include the launch of a major research project by Justin Remais and colleagues on the environmental epidemiology of fungal diseases in the U.S., including Valley fever, how people are being exposed to pathogenic fungi, and conditions created by extreme wet weather events in which fungal pathogens thrive and people get hurt.