https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-becomes-first-ever-killed-29579317?
A mushroom hunter has become the first person ever infected by a plant fungus disease.
The 61-year-old Indian man was left with flu-like symptoms and couldn't swallow for three months.
After performing scans, doctors found he had an abscess in his windpipe and in a follow-up operation they drained the pus before sending samples to a lab.
The results revealed he had caught chondrostereum purpureum – which causes a silver leaf disease in plants.
The disease, which is spread through airborne spores, slowly kills the plants while turning their leaves a metallic colour.
It's believed that he contracted the illness while working as a mycologist – a fungi specialist.
The role involves working closely with “decaying material” mushrooms, moulds and yeast, which doctors said he'd been doing for a “long time”.