Like a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic plot, rising temperatures are causing fungi to mutate in ways that not only make them hyper-infectious but drug-resistant, too.

This is deeply concerning as our world warms, Nanjing Medical University researcher Jingjing Huang and colleagues warn.

“The danger and importance of new fungal pathogens is believed to be seriously underestimated,” they write in their new paper.

“Temperature-dependent mutagenesis can enable the development of pan-drug resistance and hypervirulence in fungi, and support the idea that global warming can promote the evolution of new fungal pathogens.”

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      At that point isolated anarchist communes would be more likely then anything. There really wouldn’t be much of society left to make communist.

      When society starts to rebuild I can definitely see it coming back as communist however.

      Or the dolphins can start their Revolution. Either or.