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Humans have shockingly few ways to treat fungal infections

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Season two of The Last of Us returns to a world where people combat zombies puppeteered by a mind-controlling fungus.

Climate change is contributing to the spread of fungal infections such as Candida auris and valley fever.

Scientists are developing potential antifungal vaccines and drugs.

About 10,000 to 20,000 people in the United States , mostly in Arizona and California , get valley fever each year .

Only four new antifungal drugs have been approved in the last decade in the U.S. , Europe or China .

Other groups are also working on vaccines against valley fever and other fungal infections.

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