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AFAIK fungi are extremely hard to get rid of. This is not a great news.
by agumonkey 4y ago
AFAIK fungi are extremely hard to get rid of. This is not a great news.
- BirAdam 4y agoThat depends upon just how much you’re willing to put yourself through. Compared to cancer, fungus is easy to be rid of.
- hnbad 4y agoYeah but that's because cancer is basically your own cells with faulty programming.
- 11235813213455 4y agothey don't like dryness, but unfortunately our body is wet
- etiam 4y agoVery diverse organism group, and often very tough, but at least it's distinct organisms with distinct characteristics rather than literally the same organism with some of the regulation broken. We have a few chemicals that hurt them while mostly sparing us, and more chemicals which hurt both but them more badly. Many species of fungus are quite sensitive to high temperatures, which may have been one selection pressure favoring warm-blooded animals. Maybe an artificial fever or even local tissue heating could be enough to tip the balance in favor of the host in some cases. At the very least it's a fascinating piece of information which is better to be in possession of than not.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoYep. 0. There aren't many antimycotics. 1. The extreme measures Mount Sinai needed to clean up after C. auris. (It has a 30% mortality rate.)
- hinkley 4y agoMany of the things that kill fungi also kill livers.