bernieecclestoned 45 points 3 years ago

Medical experts say one reason for the surge is that more people have compromised immune systems, including cancer patients and those taking medicines after organ transplants. Compounding the problem, research shows, is that rising temperatures appear to have expanded the geographical range of some deadly fungal pathogens, and possibly made them better adapted to human hosts.

Literally the last of us

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vegivamp 20 points 3 years ago

Can't wait until cordyceps turns up 🙂

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lka1988 2 points 3 years ago

It's been training all it's life for this moment

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Skooshjones 12 points 3 years ago

Bruh...

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Turkey_Titty_city 5 points 3 years ago

no. it's literally not.

fungal infections always target people with compromised immune systems. one of the first indicators of late stage AIDs was fungal infections.

fungus does not effect healthy people apart from ringworm and other topical things.

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bernieecclestoned 7 points 3 years ago

fungus does not effect healthy people apart from ringworm and other topical things.

But it's getting warmer

Which may make more of them able to survive in humans, as per the article, which I quoted?

Compounding the problem, research shows, is that rising temperatures appear to have expanded the geographical range of some deadly fungal pathogens, and possibly made them better adapted to human hosts.

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hanni 2 points 3 years ago

yet

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Kyoyeou 33 points 3 years ago

I'm fascinated at how much more we (at least the public) are discovering of the effects of climate change. Basic level was: hotter years, and then we discover new mechanics that comes with this change

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Turkey_Titty_city 3 points 3 years ago

insects populations exploding spreading blood borne disease is going to be a way bigger factor that fungus.

but there isn't a TV show/video game about that.

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Boddhisatva 6 points 3 years ago

Where are you that insect populations are exploding? All the reports for some time say that populations are declining globally.

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Ertebolle 3 points 3 years ago

The good news there is that we have a 77% effective malaria vaccine and a number of promising candidate Lyme vaccines - it may turn out that a great many insect-borne diseases can be prevented with vaccination once they start affecting people in rich countries.

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Balssh 3 points 3 years ago

Thankfully the braindeads refusing the vaccines on these diseases won't affect anyone else but themselves.

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Arin 1 point 3 years ago

They have kids, hopefully we can get CPS on them if they refuse

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dedale 2 points 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTS,S
Hm. It's a start I guess.

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human_probably 1 point 3 years ago

And even more good news: vaccines have never been the subject of controversy!

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kommanditbolag 1 point 3 years ago

There isn't a TV show about that yet.

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RandAlThor 16 points 3 years ago

Oh this is like that tv show becoming reality.

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Osayidan 25 points 3 years ago

You mean that documentary "The Last of Us"?

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tgxn 8 points 3 years ago

It's a great docu-series!

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RandAlThor 0 points 3 years ago

Yes the name was lost for a second in my brain lol.

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OnRequest 1 point 3 years ago

That's the cordyceps making you forget!

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SpaceNoodle 18 points 3 years ago

It's more like that video game

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BaroqueInMind 2 points 3 years ago

No, it's going to be similar to that streaming drama series based on the video game.

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Entropywins 2 points 3 years ago

What like The Witcher?

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OnRequest 1 point 3 years ago

No Cyberpunk 2077

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Itsyaboimuf 15 points 3 years ago

So when do we get zombies?

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agitatedpotato 15 points 3 years ago

Go on facebook, you'll find them.

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riskable 3 points 3 years ago

On July 1st when the apps stop working.

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BobVersionFour 1 point 3 years ago

I don't know why but pretty sure zombie are going to come from lab grown meat ( which i think just got approve by the FDA and soon USDA )

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progenyofthestars 1 point 3 years ago

Asking the real question, right here.

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Angry_Maple 10 points 3 years ago

If any of you are interested in a book that talks about new bizarre fungi associated with the increasing climate, I really recommend "The Fifth Extinction:An Unnatural History", by Elizabeth Kolbert.

The book was published back in 2014, but scientists were already seeing similar effects on animals within the amazon. A lot of animals are thought to be at risk of extinction because of fungus associated with rising temperatures. There was a very big focus on amphibians and small animals. I could totally see that trend expanding across more species, especially after nearly another decade.

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bernieecclestoned 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks, will give it a read

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WheeGeetheCat 1 point 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure I read that mammals originally evolved warm blood to help fight fungal infections. If you think about human body temp, it's not much more than ambient temp in a lot of places now. In fact it's often less

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digitalgadget 9 points 3 years ago

This happened to me on a smaller scale.

I had a sinus infection for several years. Doctors threw every antibiotic at me and nothing stuck. Was told to take antihistamines and see if it cleared up.

I ended up with a bunch of dental cavities from dry mouth and said Enough - I got an appointment with another doctor and pleaded with them for a different prescription. Antifungal. A week later it was gone.

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dandb 3 points 3 years ago

Looks like there are some downsides to a warmer climate after all, who knew

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bobby_tables 3 points 3 years ago

This is fine

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janus2 1 point 3 years ago

I honestly wonder how much of this could be prevented by doing patient blood/tissue cultures to see what grows

The cynic in me says these things aren't being done as often as they should be because they're expensive and insurance companies like to fight to not pay for them

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bernieecclestoned 4 points 3 years ago

Dead people don't pay premiums

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Zorque 3 points 3 years ago

But sick people do. Cigarette companies have been killing their customers for years, and making a figurative killing while they're at it.

Just because their customers are dying because of their actions doesn't mean they can't milk them for all they're worth in the mean time.

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Aviandelight 1 point 3 years ago

Routine sepsis protocols have blood cultures included. The problem is blood cultures only pick up a few of the more common fungal infections. If these fungal infections are infact becoming more frequent then the protocol needs to change to include the use of specific fungal culture tube in addition to routine blood cultures. Unfortunately that is going to take time, training, and money to implement.

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tldrbot -4 points 3 years ago

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pm_me_weird_thoughts 2 points 3 years ago

bruh

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