The #CDC needs to be tracking #FungalInfections

https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-against-the-fungal-apocalypse-is-just-beginning/

Wired.
The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning
#FungalInfections are rising worldwide and climate change may be to blame. #Medicine isn’t ready.
In February, a dermatologist in New York City contacted the state’s health department about two female patients, ages 28 and 47, who were not related but suffered from the same troubling problem. They had ringworm, a scaly, crusty, disfiguring rash covering large portions of their bodies.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-against-the-fungal-apocalypse-is-just-beginning/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

#fungi #disease

#fungalinfections now on #Texas border

Im sure this has nothing to do with replacement migration.

Health department alerts public, clinicians about suspected fungal infections linked to surgery in Matamoros, Mexico

The Texas Department of State Health Services is alerting the public and health care professionals about suspected cases of fungal meningitis among Texas residents who got surgery in Matamoros, Mexico. An ongoing public health investigation has found at least five affected patients. One person died, and four are currently hospitalized.
All five patients traveled from Texas to Matamoros to get surgical procedures that involved an epidural, which is anesthetic injected into the area around the spinal column. Health authorities in the United States and Mexico are investigating the source of the infections...

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/alert/fungal-infections-mexico

In related news, the increase in #FungalInfections might be #Covid19 related.

https://news.sky.com/story/fungal-infections-increased-significantly-during-covid-pandemic-as-who-reveals-health-threatening-fungi-list-12730791

The fungus 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 hijacks a human protein to escape intracellular killing in lung surface cells. It redirects their phagosomes to a non-degradative pathway: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/fungal-spores-hijack-lung-cells.html
@dfg_public
@unijena

Direct link to the article in Cell Host & Microbe:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2023.02.002

#Microorganisms #fungalinfections #lung #scicomm

How can studying predator-prey interactions lead to the discovery of new chemical compounds that otherwise would probably be overlooked? Pierre Stallforth talks about this to @CBCNews (starting at ~10:00)
https://cbc.ca/player/play/2175749187643
@unijena
#fungicides #fungi #fungalresistance #fungalinfections #bacteria #biochemistry

Fungal infections are becoming more common. Why isn't there a vaccine? https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fungal-infections-are-becoming-common-isnt-vaccine-rcna68791
>Vaccine researchers are focused on a small group of fungi responsible for the vast majority of fatal infections in the U.S.

#Vaccine #Vaccination
#Fungi #FungalInfections

‘A growing threat to human health’: we are ill-equipped for the dangers of fungal infections https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/10/a-growing-threat-to-human-health-we-are-ill-equipped-for-the-dangers-of-fungal-infections?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#WHO
#FungalInfections

Already Spread to Every Continent: Unusual Fungus Has the Potential To Become a Global Health Problem . An article on candida auris. https://scitechdaily.com/already-spread-to-every-continent-unusual-fungus-has-the-potential-to-become-a-global-health-problem/amp/ #infection #fungalinfections

Fungi in the soil cause a significant number of serious lung infections in 48 out of 50 states and the District of Columbia, including many areas long thought to be free of deadly environmental fungi, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Studies from the 1950s and 60s indicated that fungal lung infections were a problem only in certain parts of the country. The new study, available online in Clinical Infectious Diseases, shows that is no longer the case. #FungalInfections #Soil #Fungus

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/lung-infections-caused-by-soil-fungi-are-a-problem-nationwide/

Use #aloevera or #essentialoils to treat #fungalinfections #homeremedies

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-27-natural-healing-how-to-treat-fungal-infections.html

Use #aloevera or #essentialoils to treat #fungalinfections #homeremedies

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-27-natural-healing-how-to-treat-fungal-infections.html

It’s not a hallucination: Magic mushrooms grow in man’s blood after he injects himself with shroom tea
https://tinyurl.com/y5u7ssfj
#alternativemedicine #anxiety #badhealth #badmedicine #beatdepression #bipolardisorder #dangerous #drugmisuse #fungalinfections #magicmushrooms...