How Crop Farming Could Breed Deadly Superbugs

The use of agricultural fungicides may be planting the seeds for a new global health threat

Anna Almendrala
Elemental
Published in
11 min readJul 18, 2019

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Illustration: Haein Jeong

AA woman puts on her gardening gloves and plunges her spade into the earth. As she digs and plants all afternoon, thousands of microscopic fungal spores are released from the soil and enter the air, where they enter her body through her…

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Anna Almendrala
Elemental

Freelance health journalist in Los Angeles who lives for food courts, crafting sessions and a good book.