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Could our next pandemic start with a spore?

During the pandemic, a lot of attention was rightly paid to the damage a virus can cause. But viruses aren’t the only pathogen capable of mass destruction. Emily Monosson joins us to discuss how fungi are threatening both animals vital to our ecosystem and crops that feed the planet’s 8 billion people. Her book is called “Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic.”