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It doesn't need to spread from person to person. Most likely people get it from rare environment conditions and bad luck.
by ChrisLomont 5y ago
It doesn't need to spread from person to person. Most likely people get it from rare environment conditions and bad luck.
- londons_explore 5y agoIn which case... where in the environment does it grow? If it's all growing in a cave somewhere, we can find it and disinfect it or at least put up a fence.
- loa_in_ 5y agoThe thing about it being found mostly in immunocompromised people suggests it could be a fairly common and widespread organism but most people shrug it off.
- evo 5y agoI recall hearing a hypothesis that one consequence of global warming might be an uptick in opportunistic fungal infections. Warm-bloodedness might be largely an adaptation to make the human body uninhibitable by environmental pathogens, but as warming pushes tropical areas to long sustained stretches of temperatures above 98.6F, it acts a selective pressure for organisms to evolve such that they can now thrive in the body.
- an9n 5y agoEverything bad is related to global warming these days, it seems.
- ChrisLomont 5y agoMany molds are everywhere, in soil all over the planet. Most likely you are never going to eradicate such things.