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<< it may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change, with the caveat that many other factors may have contributed.>> Significan

by eggy 4y ago

<< it may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change, with the caveat that many other factors may have contributed.>> Significant or not? <<many other factors may have contributed>> <<The most enigmatic aspect of the rise of Candida auris as a human pathogen is that it emerged simultaneously on three continents, >> I would be interested to know if COVID happened everywhere around the same time relatively speaking, with people self-quarantining while all running to the emergency room of hospitals, might explain the "enigma" above.

wahern 4y ago
Yeah, that paper is trash. There's zero evidence provided. In fact, they literally suggest that somebody else should find evidence to support their conclusion: > The hypothesis that C. auris broke the mammalian thermal barrier through adaptation to climate change suggests several experimental lines of investigation to obtain evidence for and against it. Nonetheless, they still cite to earlier papers (multiple!) of theirs to argue that they "predicted" their current speculative conclusion; for example, > Given the capacity of fungal species to adapt to higher temperatures and the fact that many fungal species that are currently nonpathogenic species are likely to have the necessary virulence attributes by virtue of their survival in soils, we previously hypothesized that climate change would bring new fungal diseases And in case anybody missed it (as I did, initially), the entire body of this "paper" is under the header, "OPINION/HYPOTHESIS".