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A vaccine in development could protect against incurable and hard-to-treat fungal infections that strike nearly 1billion people worldwide and kill 1.5million people every year.  Many of these infections are also increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics and antifungal treatments, making them nearly impossible to treat.  In a new study, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that their experimental vaccine prevented …

A report in Clinical Infectious Diseases describes the largest US outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by Fusarium species, which occurred among residents who received epidural anesthesia for cosmetic surgeries with the same anesthesiologist in Matamoros, Mexico, in 2023. Of the 24 patients sickened, 12 died, which the authors say underscores the need for clinicians to suspect fungal meningitis in patients with …