Who would ever think that the cozy corners of your garden could harbor something deadly? Well, it's time to believe it. Researchers have stumbled upon a tenacious, life-threatening fungus taking cover ...

The salty morsels of processed corn, made soft by thick humidity, triggered the growth of mold on the cavern floor and on ...

Droughts temporarily dampen the number of valley fever cases across the state, but cases spike in the years after rains return.

A deadly disease in bats is spreading in Washington state. Wildlife officials say the fungal disease known as white-nose ...

Study identified glycosylasparaginase on Aspergillus fumigatus spores. This enzyme weakens immunity, allowing the mold to ...

A new study finds that when bats in U.S. counties were decimated by the deadly white-nose syndrome, human deaths followed ...

SACRAMENTO, the United States - Valley Fever, a fungal disease, has been spreading in California, with warnings from state ...

A collapse in North America's bat population led to a surge in pesticide use by farmers as an alternative way to protect crops from insects -- in turn triggering a rise in infant mortalities, a study ...

A collapse in North America's bat population led to a surge in pesticide use by farmers as an alternative way to protect their crops -- in turn triggering a rise in infant mortalities, a study ...

Bats are natural pesticides for farmers, so when a deadly fungus ravaged their populations, their loss cost farmers money — and communities their healthy infants.

A new study in the journal Science found the decline of bats in the United States had come at a deadly cost to humans.

Researchers have identified the seasonal and climate-based cycles of Valley fever, an emerging but dangerous fungal disease spread through dust in the air.