Super fungus that kills nearly half of its victims in 90 days has spread globall - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/no-need-to-tell-the-public-super-fungus-that-kills-nearly-half-of-its-victims-in?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=STFB&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1554638937 Fuck we all gonna die

So what they are saying is that there is a fungus amongst us?

Resistant germs are often called "superbugs", but this is simplistic because they don't typically kill everyone. Instead, they are most lethal to people with immature or compromised immune systems, including newborns and the elderly, smokers, diabetics and people with autoimmune disorders who take steroids that suppress the body's defences. Scientists say that unless more effective new medicines are developed and unnecessary use of antimicrobial drugs is sharply curbed, risk will spread to healthier populations. When will "antimicrobial drugs" pop up jinxed it probably

I'm sure there's a few dozen mommy anti-vax groups on Facebook sharing this news story and commenting about how Big Pharma is so desperate to push their drugs that they're now faking a global epidemic. Also they put mushrooms on their salads all the time and nobody got sick, that big pharma must think we're pretty stupid to believe in a "fungal infection."

Jokes on the fungal because here at facepunch we're the worlds largest repository of gas mask owners and users.

We also all never wash though so it cancels out

Speak for yourself, pal.

Life causes autism! Kill yourselves! I mean technically...

I think Pentium/Mips should be the judge, he's the filthiest of us all

Ironically, that would actually help the situation by lowering the overuse. (Or was that what you were referring to?)

Is this practically Medusoid Mycelium in a sense?

It doesn’t kill in just an hour, so not really. also the article emphasizes this particular fungus as (right now) only being lethal to people with weak immune systems.

Another important thing to note is that antifungal drugs will kill you about as good as they kill fungus, they are a last resort when you're likely to die whether you get the drugs or not. A good friend of mine had Histoplasmosis with complications that lasted for 12-18 months, and the treatment is more or less "tough it out try not to die". He got it from exploring abandoned buildings and sleeping in one, the fungus that causes it grows really well in bird shit, which is everywhere in places like that

Not cool man tbh. We already know this place was one of the few places he felt comfortable being in and in the end these sort of posts drove him out because it upset him too much. Last post we saw from him he had admitted he began drinking heavily and was apologising for being so "weird". The poor dude suffers from mental illness, he needed help and support and instead people found it funnier to mock him for his behaviour. He deserved better than what he got and we should be more thoughtful of how we post about others because it can have a bigger impact than we realize.

Don't you mean 'curlsed' it?

hope the fireflies cure it

You've got to be hilikus.

My god, what are you doing?

Viral marketing strategy for The Last of Us looking pretty solid.

I say let the anti-vaxxers not vaccinate. Let natural selection take its course. Obviously their kids should go behind the parents' backs and get vaccinated when they can/talk to their doctor and tell the doctor that their parents are insane lunatic anti-vaxxers and they "wouldn't let me get vaccinated" just to see if the doctor would be like "ok well let's get you vaccinated without parental consent since your parents are insane".

Freeman, you fool!

If enough people stop vaccinating, it's not just going to kill them off and leave people who vaccinate themselves alone. It's going to create a breeding ground for viruses to spread and mutate into something else that we don't have any protection against. That's why everyone needs to vaccinate, so that natural selection doesn't create another pandemic like spanish flu.

This isn't like obesity where someone eats themselves to death and nobody else is affected. People not getting vaccinated has an impact on everyone else, including those who can't get vaccinations for serious medical reasons that would normally be protected by herd immunity and are now at risk. So no, let's not unless the second part of the plan is exiling them to where they can't be dangerous to the rest of society.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/candida-auris-outbreak-superbug-fungus-has-sickened-hundreds-cdc-says/ They are now near 600 victims in the US, including 300 from NY, where the main thread's article mention a NY victim.