Essay by Eric Worrall
Fungal Fiction mimicking fiction?
Guest post: Fungal infections are adapting to climate change – and threatening public health
Fungi are learning to adapt to climate change, posing a major threat to human health.
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Fungi are known for their ability to adjust to – and thrive in – new and changing environments.
Now, they are learning to adapt to the rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and extreme weather events that characterise a warming planet.
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Historically, most fungi do not cause disease in humans, meaning they are not “pathogenic”.
This is because – unlike viruses and bacteria – most fungi cannot survive or spread in body temperatures of 37C.
But, as global temperatures rise, some fungi are adapting to survive in hotter environments, including the human body.
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Read more: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-fungal-infections-are-adapting-to-climate-change-and-threatening-public-health/
The article goes on to give a new WHO monitoring programme a plug.
How can anyone take claims like this seriously? The Carbon brief article is straight out of the plot of “The Last of Us”, a hit series about fungus attacking humans and turning humans into hybrid zombies, all because of global warming.
While our body heat does provide a barrier against fungal infection, it is not much of a barrier. Immunocompromised people suffer horrible problems from fungus infections – their body heat does not protect them.
Fungal infections in immunocompromised critically ill patients
Author links open overlay panelJosé Garnacho-Montero
, Irene Barrero-García
José Garnacho-Montero, Irene Barrero-García, Cristina León-Moya
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jointm.2024.01.005Get rights and content
Abstract
Diverse pathogenic fungi can produce severe infections in immunocompromised patients, thereby justifying intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. In some cases, the infections can develop in immunocompromised patients who were previously admitted to the ICU. Aspergillus spp., Pneumocystis jirovecii, Candida spp., and Mucorales are the fungi that are most frequently involved in these infections. Diagnosis continues to be challenging because symptoms and signs are unspecific. Herein, we provide an in-depth review about the diagnosis, with emphasis on recent advances, and treatment of these invasive fungal infections in the ICU setting.
Read more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667100X2400015X
I enjoyed watching series one of “The Last of Us”, it was a great zombie story. I loved the apocalyptic final episode of series one – reminiscent of great Western movies like “Unforgiven”. But to watch such fiction in comfort you have to park your scientific skepticism with the opening credits.
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From the article: “Fungi are learning to adapt to climate change, posing a major threat to human health.”
What climate change? You mean that “con job” President Trump is talking about? Didn’t you hear, Trump?
“Didn’t you hear, Trump?”
Well, if Trump said it, I suppose it must be true.
More true than if Mann said something. But that’s not saying much.
If “The Last of Us” was a prediction or commitment issued by the climate caterwauling cult indicating that they were abandoning the field of proper scientific appreciation and reportage, this would be the best news in 30 years.
(Mind you, the desperation in their reportage in recent times could indicate that they actually are beginning to realize and accept that the “the biggest scam in human history” is falling apart at the seams).
What climate change? Where is it?
Mistake; tried to delete comment but don’t know how.
No need to delete the comments because you are asking the right questions.
If you want to delete a reply to a comment, in the reply comment box move the mouse pointer to the lower right and click on the small gear wheel when it appears. Then click on manage comment tab and then edit. Use the backspace key to delete all the text. Lastly, click on reply to comment. The reply comment box will then disappear.
HP:
Thanks for the tutorial.
Now: How to add a graphic to the comment or reply?
I’ve tried Copy & Paste but no luck.
Seems all spezies either adept and become an increased threat or go extinct in the world of global warming.
instead of simply ignoring it as there is nothing to adept to in a 1 degree warming scenario on a planet where animals inhabit areas between -50 and + 50 degrees celsius.
A minor fluctuation won’t do crap.
And even if region X becomes 1 degree warmer it will just have the same temperature as the neighboring region that is 250 miles closer to the equator.
Which means that those ” warmer” conditions already exist somewhere and if funghi haven’t adapted to them in 1.5 billion years why should they now especially when 90% of that time the climate used to be hotter than it is now.
“spezies” should be “species” and “funghi” should be “fungi”
What OS are you running ? I am using MS 11 which has a spelling checker. If I misspell a word, the spelling checker places a wavy red line under it.
If after posting a comment, you can correct typos and misspelling or add additional info. Place the mouse pointer, over the small gear wheel in the lower right corner of the comment box and follow the instructions. You have a five minute window for making corrections after posting a comment.
My English would drive any spellchecker crazy.
And I’m using a device that is 12 years old.
No spellchecking.
But I’m always greatful for some corrections.(and the word funghi is correct in Italian.Guess I will never get the Menucard version from the pizzarestaurant out of my head)
“But I’m always greatful for some corrections”
OK.. not as if I don’t make enough errors and typos myself..;-)
“grateful”… not “greatful”
and in your original post, 5th word, it should be “adapt” not “adept”, which has a totally different meaning
Thx.
Hope Grateful Dead fans can forgive me.
They don’t have any brain cells left anyway, so don’t worry.
My laptop is brand new Lenovo which my son bought for me which came with MS 11. He installed an ad blocker. Do you have an ad blocker?
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No.Neither do I have a son.
I have access to newer devices , but for a bit of commenting my old one is enough.
(and don’t listen to Redge.
The ads here are worse than my English.
Rather donate to WUWT than dealing with that stuff)
I think Redge’s point is, don’t block ads unless you financially support WUWT – which if you donate, you do.
Exactly
And then there are seasons and day cycle. To not get it naturally one should be raised in a thermostat environment.
Hmm. More evidence that those people are either space tourists or runaway experiments (as in «Dr. Stein grows funny creatures, Lets them run into the night»).
What climate change? These people should go to Wikipedia to learn about the Köppen Climate Classification System. There are hundreds of distinct climates around the world. When you say “climate change”, you have to specify what region of the earth you are referring to. For example, the Sahara desert. Has there been any climate change in the last 100 years?
In some regions of the earth, desertification can cause local climate change there. Urbanization can effect local climates due to the UHI effect.
You also have to undertake a comprehensive survey of the flora and fauna in the region and then consult historical records to determine if there has been any notable changes in these.
Most of the climates of the earth are water, ice, snow, rocks, and sand. Activities of humans are not going effect the climates of the vast Pacific ocean or the Rocky mountains.
110% agree.
Fungus grows on your tongue all the time (it’s one of the main causes of bad breath). Normally your immune system keeps it under control, but in the case of full-blown AIDS or other immunodeficiency, it can grow unchecked and have to be literally scraped off.
Didn’t know that. As long as mushrooms don’t grow out of our backs, like the image at the top of this article. 🙂
Bacteria grow in your mouth and on your tongue not fungi, and cause halitosis. The bacteria can be easily wiped out with mouth wash
Argh. Do me a lemon, not another climageddon nonsense story.
Climate change is global warming.
Global warming is an average result. That must mean some areas are warmer and some are cooler.
Does fungus respond to averages? The article claims it does or they wouldn’t have said so.
This must mean that fungus in areas which are getting cooler will lose any ability to infect other life forms.
Or even areas that “haven’t warmed,” if the fungi have “adapted to” warmer temperatures.
That’s a truly nitwit statement. Fungi are everywhere. They aren’t “learning” anything and they aren’t “adjusting”.
I would dare say that fungi have far more intelligence than the average climate worrier.! 😉
I like to say about the climate worriers, “bang their collective heads together, and they still wouldn’t have the intelligence of a single amoeba”.
Reminds me of the ’50s horror film, “The Blob”. 🙂
At ease disease, the fungus is among us.
One of my Dad’s favorites.
It was warmer than today in the 1930s. Why hasn’t humanity been wiped out by these adaptive fungi by now?
Because this time it really, really will happen.
Considering most of the last 10,000 years was warmer than now….
…where are all these killer fungi ???
How did humans exist and prosper is such a mouldy world.
Fungi don’t seem to be affecting world wide crop production.
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Methinks these clowns have consumed too many “Shrooms”
If a fungus can adapt to grow in the human body it does not need warmer temperatures to do it. Fungus spores are everywhere, humans have been around for thousands of years, there’s like billions of us living in every climate zone there is, encountering every fungus there is.
If the fungi could adapt to human beings they would have already.
Athlete’s foot and nail fungus are two species the are prevalent in humans. I see ads on the TV for nail fungus cures.
Yup, I had a nail fungus on a big toe. Tried all sorts of treatments, wound up removing the nail. No big deal not having it and that fungus can only live between the nail and the nail bed so its gone. Athlete’s foot is around too but its pretty easy to treat.
“humans have been around for thousands of years”
Or millions…
There is a reason they are turning to crap like this, they have lost the serious argument and they know it.
Because of their adaptability fungi have shown they are fungible to changing temperatures.
So now it’s the fungi that are adapting to climate change and not just everything else under the sun that the alarmists claim will destroy civilization. Except maybe there’s no threat at all from an occurrence that the planet has seen on a regular basis going back thousands of years; and despite the climate crisis myth, maybe humans and the other living things here are too resourceful, creative and adaptable for it to affect them regardless.
If fungi can adapt to climate change, why can’t humans?
This craziness is mushrooming.
(Someone had to say it)
Or at least cribbing hacks pop up like mushrooms after a rain.
“The Carbon brief article is straight out of the plot of “The Last of Us”, a hit series about fungus attacking humans and turning humans into hybrid zombies, all because of global warming.”
The series was based on a video game, in which there was no mention of he actual cause(s) of the outbreak, to my knowledge. So CC was the lefty message in the series.
Besides, Pedro Pascal is a giant lefty, and is frankly poor casting, based on the Joel character in the games.
The “creative collaborative community” — being “creative” via being “collaborative”, as usual.
So if they are adaptive and adjusting to the new higher temperatures. Then it would be fair to assume that they had already adjusted to the old steady-state ( in climate theory) temperatures, therefore the challenge of new hotter temperatures is at least keeping them struggling to adapt and therefore keeping us safer than if they had the old climate, which they already had adapted to. Thank you, Mr. Climate Scientist, for relieving my fear of body-eating fungi.