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You should be much more concerned about bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. While fungi are undoubtedly evolving quickly and may one day pose a risk to u
by woeirua 5y ago
You should be much more concerned about bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. While fungi are undoubtedly evolving quickly and may one day pose a risk to us, the devil we know is already working very quickly to overwhelm our best medications. And we know that without those medications millions per year will die.
But I'm not that worried about antibiotic resistance, because there are many ways to skin a cat. MRNA vaccines, bacteriophages, targeted antibiotics, nanotech, etc all offer us ways to break free from the natural arms race that we're in right now.
- mrweasel 5y agoThe issue with fungi is that we have so litte efficient medication. What little we do have is slowly being render useless by its overuse in agriculture.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoWe've got a lot of pharmacological weapons suitable for use against bacteria. For fungi we have azoles, amphotericin B... That's pretty much it. My microbiology professor used to be terrified of these things. Probably still is.
- MrMan 5y agoThere is a new third class of anti fungals