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Invasive Fungal Infections: The New Threat
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Invasive Fungal Infections: The New Threat

42 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Fungal infections now kill roughly three times as many people worldwide as malaria, and this DW documentary explains why doctors and farmers are both alarmed. It centers on two organisms flagged as high priority by the WHO: Candida auris, a hospital-borne yeast now detected in more than 50 countries with a fatality rate as high as 60 percent, and Aspergillus fumigatus, a mold increasingly resistant to standard antifungal drugs and disinfectants. Interviews with researchers and physicians trace how intensive agriculture and climate change are helping fungi adapt to warmer, drug-saturated environments, closing the temperature gap that once kept most fungal species from surviving inside the human body. The film draws an unexpected line connecting tulip cultivation, agricultural fungicide use, and cases of drug-resistant pneumonia in hospital patients, showing how treatments meant to protect crops can breed resistance that later threatens people. The result is a clear-eyed look at a public health problem that has received far less attention than bacterial resistance, told through the scientists tracking its spread in labs, farms, and intensive care units.