21/05/2021
Killers of 1.6 million people every year, fungi are emerging as some of the most lethal microbes on the planet—and we don’t really know how to stop them.
It was the fourth week of June in 2020, and the middle of the second wave of the COVID pandemic in the U.S. Cases had passed 2.4 million; deaths from the novel coronavirus were closing in on 125,000. In his home office in Atlanta, Tom Chiller looked up from his e-mails and scrubbed his hands over his face and shaved head.
By Maryn McKenna.