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Deadly Fungal Infections Causing a 'Silent Pandemic', Scientists Warn

www.sciencealert.com Deadly Fungal Infections Causing a 'Silent Pandemic', Scientists Warn

An overlooked threat.

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from four months back: Drug-resistant Trichophyton fungus represents emerging threat in US – talks about Trichophyton indotinea (same genus as athlete’s foot, ringworm, and jock itch …
- I thought this was my imagination. I had to treat a really bad case of athlete's foot with prescription grade antifungal medication because the over the counter stuff wasn't working.
  
  Two months of twice a day treatment. And if I forgot a dose, it became much worse than I expected.
  
  I had a weird case of ringworm a while back that wasn’t touched by otc meds either, it didn’t look like rings with the red outer (I was a wrestler for years; I’m very familiar with ringworm), it looked like tight-skin scar patches and just kept spreading, but my partner had a totally typical presentation and otc creams did work for that. Then again the redness being absent may have been from the otc meds, they just couldn’t clear it.
  
  I went to urgent care and asked for an oral antifungal once I hit 20 spots including on my scalp. The guy looked at it and said it was psoriasis, even tho I had no history of that, because “it would be an atypical presentation of ringworm” (yes but would this not also be a strongly atypical presentation of psoriasis, considering I’m late-30s, never had a flare before, this doesn’t itch, isn’t red, and isn’t limited to the normal regions of flares?? Just give me the damned med, moron.)
  
  The oral antifungal took care of it in about 2 weeks, thankfully, which was still a bit longer than a normal round (had to go back for a second round)
As long as it's not Cordyceps, we're good, right? ... Right‽
- Is anyone else really fighting the urge to climb up to the roof of really tall buildings and just hang out?
  
  No, no, nothing like that... Just this unbelievably strong craving for living human flesh. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Woohoo! Pandemic 2.0 here we come! I wonder if there'll be a covid DLC with this update?
That's not really a concern. Cordyceps can't survive in humans. We're too warm.
- Right now. There's been reports of fungi that are becoming more tolerant of warmer temperatures due to climate change. There's a radiolab about it that's a few years old
  
  So, if that happens?

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