Most people are familiar with bacterial sinus infections that come with seasonal colds or allergies, but another, potentially more serious type of infection often goes unrecognized until it causes ...

She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates ... infections. Fungus ball sinusitis often results from the inhalation of fungal spores or from a mucosal ...

Valley fever, which is caused by inhaling fungal spores found in soil, is a potentially deadly respiratory infection marked by symptoms like cough, fever, chest pain and difficulty breathing.

Sharing of personal items, such as towels, shoes, or nail clippers, which can harbour fungal spores and facilitate infection. Unlike contagious fungal infections that spread between individuals ...

replacing their abdomens with a cavity full of fungal spores, manipulating the bugs into hypersexual behavior to spread the fungus further and transforming the cicadas into what some scientists ...

A mysterious ailment that can take months to show up Ian Pritchard had blastomycosis, a fungal infection caused by breathing spores that especially ... carbon dioxide from blood and recirculating ...

A fungal ball is a mass that develops in your sinuses after you’ve breathed in fungal spores. Medications cannot treat it, but a doctor can surgically remove it. Sinus fungal balls are a type of ...

These images can help confirm the extent of sinus involvement and the presence of any fungal masses. A doctor may also order blood or allergy ... and exposure to fungal spores may lead to AFRS.

Take Valley fever, for instance. The disease can cause flu-like symptoms in people who breathe in the microscopic spores of the fungus Coccidioides. The climatic conditions favoring Valley fever ...

Fungal nail infections, or onychomycosis, are commonly seen among the elderly and those with certain chronic health conditions. This includes those with Diabetes, psoriasis, peripheral vascular ...