The Battle Against the #FungalApocalypse Is Just Beginning
#Fungal #infections are rising worldwide and #ClimateChange may be to blame. #Medicine isn’t ready.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-against-the-fungal-apocalypse-is-just-beginning/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_b3fb0b60-a760-433c-aa73-7cf9978f1e81_popular4-1
#ClimateCrisis #Health
#health #climatecrisis #medicine #climatechange #infections #fungal #fungalapocalypse
Pretty exciting to see oral amphotericin behaving comparably to IV amphotericin for #HIV associated #Cryptococcus #meningitis
Phase 2 open label #RCT, so not quite there yet, but big potential win in simplicity and access to treatment for
#Cryptococcusneoformans & other #fungal diseases, potentially even #mucor
#infectiousdiseases #mycology #IDMastodon #MedMastodon #medicine @infectiousdiseases
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad440/7246927
#hiv #cryptococcus #meningitis #RCT #cryptococcusneoformans #fungal #mucor #infectiousdiseases #mycology #IDMastodon #MedMastodon #medicine
Valley fever, a respiratory #disease spread by #fungal spores that grow in soil, has long been concentrated mostly in the Arizona desert and California’s lower San Joaquin Valley. But a growing body of research suggests the disease is gaining a foothold farther north, driven by warming temperatures and extreme swings in rainfall and drought tied to #climatechange. #health https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/climate-change-pushing-valley-fever-northward-18277182.php
#disease #fungal #climatechange #health
Valley fever, a respiratory #disease spread by #fungal spores that grow in soil, has long been concentrated mostly in the Arizona desert and California’s lower San Joaquin Valley. But a growing body of research suggests the disease is gaining a foothold farther north, driven by warming temperatures and extreme swings in rainfall and drought tied to #climatechange. #health https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/climate-change-pushing-valley-fever-northward-18277182.php
#Health #ClimateChange #fungal #disease
#ESA2023! I’m speaking about our #urban #bee #climate sensitivity work on Tues, Jacob is presenting about influence of warming and #predators on #wetland inverts on Wed, and Ashlia is presenting a poster on warming and wetland #plant-#fungal interactions on Thurs!
#esa2023 #urban #bee #Climate #predators #wetland #plant #fungal
Beneficial #bacteria UD1022 promising for disarming #fungal #pathogens that affect #turfgrass.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-beneficial-bacteria-ud1022-fungal-pathogens.html
#bacteria #fungal #pathogens #turfgrass #spo0a #rhizobacteria
Author of ‘Blight’ explains how #humans supercharged #fungal #pathogens
Fungal #diseases have come for frogs, bats, bananas, and they're coming for us, too. Unknown until 2009 or 2010, and then the #CDC issued first warning about #Candida auris in 2016. So it’s really pretty new, and we don’t often get a really new emergence, except for something like COVID. But COVID is viral — that’s almost to be expected. To have a newly emergent fungal pathogen was something different https://grist.org/health/the-author-of-blight-explains-how-humans-supercharged-fungal-pathogens/
#humans #fungal #pathogens #diseases #cdc #Candida
#ClimateChange is increasing the world’s susceptibility to #fungal #pathogens
It sounds like something from a Pedro Pascal zombie drama, but the rise of deadly fungal spores has got some in the scientific community running scared.
July 18, 2023
"Most fungi cannot survive the human body temperature, so fungal infections have, 'for the greater part of the history of humankind,' never been a threat to human health, said Rachael Dangarembizi, a neuroinfections researcher at the University of Cape Town, on The Conversation. Now, however, 'climate change and other environmental pressures have led to the emergence of species of fungi that are capable of surviving at human body temperatures'.
"There are 'many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen', warned Monosson in Time. These range from 'the paucity of antifungal drug options to lack of vaccines and diagnostic difficulties in humans, to the potential for catastrophic crop and wildlife disease”.
"For example, around 6,000 species of #fungi are known to cause disease in commercial plants, and each year 40% of the world’s #rice crops are lost to a fungal disease, posing a huge threat to global food supply."
#ClimateChange #fungal #pathogens #fungi #rice
More than 6 million data points prove the influence of #climate on global #fungal occurrence.
#biodiversity #temperature #climate_change #mycobiome
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-million-climate-global-fungal-occurrence.html
#Climate #fungal #biodiversity #temperature #climate_change #mycobiome
New #Coronavirus Tidbits is up, #250 https://drjudystone.com/coronavirus-tidbits-250-june-18-2023/ w clips abt #superspreaders #fungal infections, #LongCovid #ventilation #CanadaFires #FreeSchoolMeals
and by
@EmilyAnthes
@YouAreLobbyLud
@TheVertlartnic
@HuntforNC
@queenofpeat
@jennycohn1
@nycsouthpaw and more!
#Coronavirus #superspreaders #fungal #LongCovid #ventilation #canadafires #FreeSchoolMeals
Ars Technica: Deadly fungal meningitis cases nearly double as CDC rushes to find exposed https://arstechnica.com/?p=1948611 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #fungalmeningitis #Anesthesiology #medicaltourism #contamination #publichealth #anesthesia #TomChiller #infection #Maramatos #epidural #morphine #outbreak #cartels #Health #deaths #fungal #mexico #cases #spine #CDC
#Tech #arstechnica #it #technology #fungalmeningitis #anesthesiology #medicaltourism #contamination #publichealth #anesthesia #tomchiller #infection #maramatos #epidural #Morphine #outbreak #cartels #health #deaths #fungal #mexico #cases #spine #cdc
Deadly fungal meningitis cases nearly double as CDC rushes to find exposed - Enlarge / One of the medical clinics suspended by Mexican health author... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1948611 #fungalmeningitis #anesthesiology #medicaltourism #contamination #publichealth #anesthesia #tomchiller #infection #maramatos #epidural #morphine #outbreak #cartels #health #deaths #fungal #mexico #cases #spine #cdc
#cdc #spine #cases #mexico #fungal #deaths #health #cartels #outbreak #morphine #epidural #maramatos #infection #tomchiller #anesthesia #publichealth #contamination #medicaltourism #anesthesiology #fungalmeningitis
#WHO (1 June 2023). DON; #Outbreak of suspected #fungal #meningitis associated with surgical procedures performed under spinal #anaesthesia – the #USA and #Mexico. Available at: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON470
#who #outbreak #fungal #meningitis #anaesthesia #usa #mexico
#Fungal attacks threaten global #foodsupply, say experts
"While that storyline is #sciencefiction, we are warning that we could see a global #health catastrophe caused by the rapid global spread of fungal infections," said Sarah Gurr, professor at the University of Exeter and co-author of the report. "The imminent threat here is not about zombies, but about global #starvation."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/03/fungal-attacks-threaten-global-food-supply-say-experts
#fungal #foodsupply #sciencefiction #health #starvation
Addressing the growing threat of #fungal infections to global #foodsecurity.
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-threat-fungal-infections-global-food.html
#fungal #FoodSecurity #agriculture
45x increase in #fungal infections seems abnormal. #Epiverse #LeonardiEffect https://mynorthwest.com/3872698/deadly-fungus-candida-auris-spreading-60-mortality-rate/
#leonardieffect #epiverse #fungal
RT @DMM_Journal
Editor @TobinLab nominated this paper from @LigoxygakisLab for #DMM2022 Paper Prize because "the screen itself is impressive in both design & execution & opens up new, interesting areas in understanding host interactions with #fungal pathogens"
https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/15/5/dmm049218/275321/ #Drosophila