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Why the next pandemic could be a potentially deadly fungus

11:35 am on 30 May 2021

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While the world continues to struggle to contain Covid-19, scientists are warning of another coronavirus pandemic on the horizon -- one which is likely to come from a yeast-like fungus. Dr Tom Chiller is the Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He joins the show to discuss why deadly fungi are the newest emerging microbe threat all over the world.

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