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7h0r t1_jefhic7 wrote

Reply to comment by SnooCats2404 in Kolkata (India) Man Infected By Killer Plant Fungus In World's First Case by vbcda

Fungus can’t live inside humans very well, it’s too slow moving and our immune systems are too efficient.

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SnooCats2404 t1_jefi0vn wrote

Aha! EXACTLY WHAT A FUNGUS INFECTED PERSON WOULD SAY! Back to hell, mushroom demon!

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7h0r t1_jeghh5p wrote

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bistro777 t1_jegtqgu wrote

All of you just read irrefutable evidence that fungus people walk among us. Not only are they vicious, they are intelligent. It's only a matter of time until they overwhelm us all. And I for one welcome our new fungus overlords. I would like to remind them as a spokesman on reddit with 18k karma, I would be useful in corralling others to toil in the fungal sugar mines.

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Feynnehrun t1_jefiytc wrote

What on earth are you talking about? There are fungal infections that are so effective at living in humans, that they're sometimes nearly impossible to get rid of. Toenail fungus being one of them. Additionally, CDC is monitoring a potential crisis right now for a killer fungus that is spreading between humans and is highly resistant to antifungals.

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aneeta96 t1_jegbbi3 wrote

Curious to hear more about the fungus the CDC is tracking but isn't toenail fungus living outside the body?

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Feynnehrun t1_jegcb71 wrote

Here's the information regarding the recent fungal threat. There are MANY fungal infections that infect humans internally, and many of them become very deadly.https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/index.html

Toenail fungus lives in the nailbed, and there are many fungal infections that cause toenail fungus. The most common one typically does not spread past the nailbed. Some, can infect the blood stream and will result in death if not treated.

here's a list of SOME fungal infections that are dangerous.https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/index.html

This list is not exhaustive.

Regarding toenail fungus....the infection is often so hard to get rid of, that you're sometimes prescribed a pill for it that can do significant damage to your liver, to the point that you have to have frequent bloodwork while taking the medication in order to monitor your liver and ensure it's not being damaged too much. Many people are removed from this medication due to their liver suffering too much from it. At which point, the next method to cure the infection is to surgically remove the nail, then sterilize the matrix so the nail doesn't grow back and then continuously apply topical prescription strength antifungals directly to the nail bed and do crazy things like change your socks 3 times a day and sterilize them in bleach or boiling water before washing them separately from other clothes.

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20mins2theRockies t1_jefo1sh wrote

>Fungus can’t live inside humans very well, it’s too slow moving and our immune systems are too efficient.

Not really. The main reason fungi cannot survive in humans is because fungi cannot survive if it's host's internal temperature is over ~94°.

There is some concern that climate change/warming temperatures could spawn new, more resistant fungi that could adapt to human hosts

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