Killer Fungus

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Yikes! :eek: This is scary. And here I thought it would be a virus that kills us all. :tongue: Although I think M. Night Shyamalan already did a version of this in The Happening. :tongue:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36722426/ns/health-infectious_diseases

It's funny how the media also picks and chooses which health threats we should panic over. If this had a catchier name like swine flu, avian flu or mad cow disease, they'd be pressing every panic button in sight. But this one has flown under the radar because I guess funguses aren't that sexy.
 
There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it! ;)
 
Corillian death ray?!@ Where?!@!

edit: actually after reading that, I am actually a little scared. Crap!
 
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I almost didn't read it after the doc said it made even him nervous. Looks like I'm staying away from Oregon, Washington, and California for awhile.
 
You know what's funny... 13 years ago in gross anatomy we lost our cadaver (Heff) to fungus... he had mushrooms in his heart and lungs... we eventually lost the whole body to fungus by the time we were doing the 3rd semester and our group had to be disbanded and merged with other cadavers.

All this time I thought it was just due to poor preservation, now I know!


On a serious note, that whole thing IS scary. Yersinia Pestis is still out there in the woods as well... I mean, in the old days stuff like this wiped out whole populations (black death).

I always thought it would come from some sort of H5N1 mutant, but hey, guess it could be the sneaky shrooms all along... well, that or KILLER BEES!!!!!
(I thought the damn bees would be in Canada by now, at least that's what the spreadsheet said 15 years ago... swarming... loitering... you know, doing killer bee things)
 
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Guess what was just talked about on the local news this morning. Huh... anyone remember the killer amoeba in the lakes?
 
EdinKali said:
There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it! ;)
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MIB baby! Thankfuly our immune system if normal is pretty good.
 
docjohn said:
MIB baby! Thankfuly our immune system if normal is pretty good.
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I'm with you on that but I guess that's what freaks me out about this fungus is that this particular strain doesn't seem to care about a healthy immune system. It's so virulent that it just stomps all over relatively healthy people.
 
just read your link,cryptococcus has been infecting the immunocompromised for a long time,we have pretty good drugs for the more typical strains.If/when enough people get infected by this novel strain the money will flow and drug companies will market something.....note to self don't hump or lick any trees in Oregon:rolleyes:
 
MSNBC is slow. They used the story for an episode of the X-Files years back. But no one BELIEVED! lol :tongue::biggrin:
 
docjohn said:
just read your link,cryptococcus has been infecting the immunocompromised for a long time,we have pretty good drugs for the more typical strains.If/when enough people get infected by this novel strain the money will flow and drug companies will market something.....note to self don't hump or lick any trees in Oregon:rolleyes:
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Agree, I have a good friend that fought Leukemia for 5 years which included 4 bone marrow transplants. The thing that almost killed her, and initiated four separate strokes, was fungus. It grew in her brain and lungs taking over and killing areas of both. Pretty scary but not new.

I am no doctor like DocJohn so I am not sure if Cyptococcus was what she had but the concept and impacts are the same.

Epilogue, The Leukemia patient I refereed to above is healthy and living a full life.

Kevin
 
docjohn said:
just read your link,cryptococcus has been infecting the immunocompromised for a long time,we have pretty good drugs for the more typical strains.If/when enough people get infected by this novel strain the money will flow and drug companies will market something.....note to self don't hump or lick any trees in Oregon:rolleyes:
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Well, then what the hell are you going to do in Oregon? sheeesh.
 
I said tree not twig:eek:
 


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