For most healthy people, Cryptococcus is an unnoticed infection. The immune system walls it off in the lungs and keeps it dormant for life. But in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy, recovering from an organ transplant, living with HIV or taking newer immunosuppressing drugs for autoimmune...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-uncovering-cryptococcus-shifts-silent-infection.html)