A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html
Un effet méconnu de l’utilisation des #pesticides (qui s’additionne à l’utilisation intempestive des #antibiotiques) dans l’#agriculture : le développement de #mycoses résistantes aux antimycosiques chez l’être humain.
Antibiotics and antifungals are both essential to combat infections in people, but antibiotics are also used widely to prevent disease in farm animals, and antifungals are also applied to prevent agricultural plants from rotting. Some scientists cite evidence that rampant use of fungicides on crops is contributing to the surge in drug-resistant fungi infecting humans.