For a fungus, there is no place like Alabama. Worldwide, fungal diseases kill more than 1.5 million people each year, and the number is rising. Alabama’s climate and population, and UAB’s reputation, mean that patients here benefit from the expertise of specialists such as Pappas and Sixto Leal Jr., M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Laboratory Medicine in the Department of Pathology, whose hospital labs can track the spread of fungal infections like nothing else in the region. That gives Alabama an advantage as new fungi are on the march around the world. Read the full story here.
