An Apocalypse of Toxic Fungi Could Threaten Millions of Lives Within 15 Years

> In a new study from the University of Manchester, scientists asked the question of what rising global temperatures could mean for the proliferation of some of these meaner mycelia.

> The researchers analyzed the effects of rising temperatures on infection-causing fungi using different climate scenarios up to the year 2100. The study showed that **within 15 years, if the world still relies on mostly fossil fuels instead of clean energy,** fungi like Aspergillus flavus—a cause of agricultural rot that also produces mycotoxins that are harmful to mammals—will spread by 16 percent, which would put an additional **1 million people at risk of infection** in Europe alone.

> Unfortunately, this proliferation is relatively tame compared to Aspergillus fumigatus, which would increase its range by 77.5 percent and put an additional **nine million people** in Europe at risk under this worst-case scenario. While described as a weak pathogen in previous studies, A. fumigatus can cause a severe or even **fatal** infection for people with immune deficiencies.

> “Fungi are relatively **under researched** compared to viruses and parasites, but these maps show that fungal pathogens will likely impact most areas of the world in the future,” van Rhign said in a press statement. The study only examined the roughly **10 percent of the fungi we know about**, so even more infections or health concerns could arise from surprising sources currently unknown to us.

There’s a RadioLab from a while back that expressed that we humans don’t really have a solid temperature of 98.6°F, that it’s really kind of all over the place, and that the lower end of the body temps is getting lower, and our ability to fight fungal infections kinda goes out the window at a particular threshold…..(Fungus Amungus)

If aspergillus kills you then the common cold would’ve killed you too. Not a doctor but this seems like fear mongering

I know S2 wasn’t as well recueced as S1, but goddamn if this isn’t some next level marketing for S3