"A deadly fungus". . .
"resistance to all types of antibiotics". . .
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Look, I don't expect a journalist to know these things, but I do expect an EDITOR to at least go through a basic fact check before the first sentence is completed.
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You get enough drinks in me, and I'll be a antibiotic resistant fun guy too.
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ALL the fungi are super bugs!!!!
I mean, everyone that spent any amount of time in high school should know this.
TIL yeasts are a type of fungus. I always thought they were related but not part of the family.
Are they resistant to antifungals too? The article didn’t say.
A deadly fungus that can be considered a superbug due to its resistance to all types of antibiotics is spreading across the country
A+ journalism using antibiotic resistance as a definition of a superbug while talking about a fungus, which is treated by antifungals.
Also, MRSA impacts more patients per year, is resistant to methicillin (they should really find out a good way to let us know that), and has pretty much the exact same transmission profile: transmission within hospitals in immune compromised patients.
It's something to keep an eye on, but it's not some massive plague like they are trying to imply with the sensationalist headline.
Who would have thought that a fungus would be resistant to antibiotics? Almost like they are the absolute wrong tool for the job. It turns out antivirals don't kill weeds either, what a shame.
Too bad antivirals don’t kill memes and youtube channels.
Deadly fungus
Resistant to anti-biotics
Hmm... Has anyone thought, like, fungus isn't a bacteria and to try using an anti-fungal medicine instead? 🤷♂️
We knew about this. I’ve been rambling about it to people that tolerate me and for the last ten+ years we’ve known this was coming. It’s part of climate change and will make Covid look trivial if we don’t figure something out. Back then we could still have slowed it but with global warming being at the pace it is it’s been inevitable. There’s several kinds iirc so buckle up I guess.
If I’m wrong on any of this I’m more than open to correction, I actually love being wrong.
How does climate change affect something that spreads inside of climate controlled buildings?
You played or seen Last Of Us? Like that except without the sci-fi mind control.
I haven't. Eli5?
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It boils down to a fungus adapting to climate change enough that it can survive inside the human body. The sci-fi bit is that it is a cordyceph capable of parasitically taking over the human body.
Basically yeah. It can travel on the air and will root into your lungs until you get new lungs, basically.
"…A deadly fungus that can be considered a superbug due to its resistance to all types of antibiotics…"
Um, yeah - antiobiotics don't treat fungal infections. What the writer should have written is that it is resistant to antifungal medications.
eventhough antibiotics is a general term, but its mostly for bacteria and not fungi, you use antifungals.
often time fungal infections require harsh medication to fix it.
Who would have thought that superheating our planet, and melting the glaciers would unearth the end of humanity.
Across half the USA and also everywhere else:
Sooo, not such a fun guy?