Rising Threat: Lancet Study Labels Fungal Infections as Silent Pandemic
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Fungal infections are also adapting beyond the means of our medicine, causing a Silent Pandemic that needs to be addressed urgently, according to a new Lancet Study.
"The threat of fungal pathogens and antifungal resistance, even though it is a growing global issue, is being left out of the debate,” explains molecular biologist Norman van Rhijn from the University of Manchester in the UK.
Fungal infections, they write in a correspondence for The Lancet, are left out too many initiatives to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Without urgent attention and action, some particularly nasty fungal infections, which already infect 6.5 million a year and claim 3.8 million lives annually, could become even more dangerous.
"The disproportionate focus on bacteria is concerning because many drug resistance problems over the past decades were the result of invasive fungal diseases, which are largely under-recognized by the community and governments alike," write van Rhijn and his colleagues.
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