For this assignment, do the following, using any RECENT resource, i.e., news abo

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For this assignment, do the following, using any RECENT resource, i.e., news about Fungi published within the last year:

4) Find an account of new information about any type of fungus that is somehow HARMING humans.

BE SURE to list the fungal species, the phylum to which it belongs, the specific type of effect it has, and, for the species other than human, name the species. The fungal species that you report do not have to be symbiotes, but it is perfectly acceptable to include symbiotes. Thus, each one of these four categories should be about a paragraph in length.

please DO NOT report on ANY of the following fungal relationship: cheese, wine, beer making, soy sauce, bread, Mushrooms, morels, truffles or penicillin, lysergic acid, psilocybin, Ergotism  or  Diseases - In humans, athlete’s foot, “ringworm”, thrush, “yeast infection”, Histoplasmosis, and thses diseases in plants Dutch Elm disease, Chestnut Blight, corn smut, leaf rust.

Please include URL’s or relevant sources for all four postings, I would expect each will be a different article, so you should have at least four sources.

Explanation / Answer

1. There are diseases hidden in ice

Throughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria, fungus and viruses. We have had antibiotics for almost a century, ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Some fungi can also survive in permafrost for a long time. Many types of fungi, and even other bacteria, naturally produce antibiotics to gain a competitive advantage over other microbes. That is how Fleming first discovered penicillin: bacteria in a petri dish died after one became contaminated with an antibiotic-excreting mould.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/diseases-hidden-in-ice-are-waking-up-as-earths-climate-warms

2. There are very few pathogens that can infect humans as well as plants. Some fungi that live on decaying plants can cause disease in humans. One example is Sporothrix schenckii, a fungus that frequently lives on dead rose thorns. This fungus can cause sporotrichosis, also called "rose-picker's disease".

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/feb2003.html

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/fotm.html

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