Fungi and Disease: Understanding Malaria, Sleeping Sickness & Amoebic Dysentery

Fungi don't cause malaria, African sleeping sickness, or amoebic dysentery.

- Malaria: is caused by a type of protozoan called Plasmodium.

- African sleeping sickness: is caused by a type of protozoan called Trypanosoma brucei.

- Amoebic dysentery: is caused by a type of protozoan called Entamoeba histolytica.

Fungi are different from protozoans, they form a separate kingdom of organisms. While some fungi can cause infections in humans, they are not responsible for the three diseases mentioned above.