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[ad_1] Global rise in temperatures is increasing the threat of fungal infections, which can be fatal to human lives, according to US health officials. Climate predictions show that temperatures will likely rise by more than 1.5 Celsius above the UN-mandated pre-industrial levels at some point before 2027. The health officials state that climate change is "pushing the organisms to adapt to better infect and invade people", the Telegraph reported. "Since many of these fungal pathogens typically exist in nature, they`re not as well adapted to human or mammalian body temperatures at 37 degrees centigrade," Dr Michael Kurilla, a director of the US National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a department within the National Institutes of Health was quoted as saying. "But with global warming, they are actually adapting... (it is) becoming much easier for fungi to colonise and infect and invade citizens, as well as other mammalian species," he