Potentially deadly fungus spreading in U.S. and Canada

Reuters ^ | April 22, 2010 | Eric Beech

[La Enchiladita]

Health scare du jour, or for real, or semi-for real like "mad cow." ???

[tet68]

My toes HAVE been itching.

[DonaldC]

I have heard a lot about fungus infections that can cause a myriad of health concerns, but I rarely hear about it from mainstream doctors, usually from people who see alternative medicine folks.

[GeronL]

Is this like the bird flu? or any number of other crises that cannot go to waste?

[Jewbacca]

It’s what happens when irresponsible people with “compromised immunity” continue to participate in “alternative” lifestyles, all while pumped with anti-virals, anti-biotics, and anti-fungals.

Superbugs jump from their diseased bodies into the general population

[gdzla]

So... There’s a fungus among us.
Sorry couldn’t help it.

[jackv]

Sort of like that nightmare killer H1N1 that wasn’t???

[Jewbacca]

It’s evolution 101.

[SkyDancer]

It’s been reported that it’s been here for ten years and so far five people have died from it ...

[GeronL]

I wonder how much it cost taxpayers to dispose of all the unused vaccine?

[blam]

I swear:

"It's Always Something".

We'll need a new government agency staffed with more Obama Commies to address this 'disease.'

[GeronL]

It’s been reported that it’s been here for ten years and so far five people have died from it ...

That is a catastrophic epidemic

[Daffynition]

C. Gatti

[CholeraJoe]

21 cases, 6 deaths. Hardly the Black Death.

[GeronL]

A crisis that cannot go to waste

[hinckley buzzard]

Fungal infections are prevalent in various climates but often present chronic low level symptoms. An example is coccidioidomycosis, endemic in the Southwest desert, commonly known as "valley fever," and affecting a large proportion of the population. Nobody dies from it, but it never completely goes away either.

"Mainstream medicine" knows all about it but there isn't much treatment available.

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s not a tumor! It’s a fungus!

[Jack Hydrazine]

A fungus among us!

[Army Air Corps]

Mayhap a Fungus Czar?

[verum ago]

And they had to get in that little “Climate Change” prod too.

To be perfectly honest, it is a little worrisome- it’s not a flash in the pan like a virus. It’ll establish itself in the environment and be here to stay.

I guess the best analogy would be West Nile- it’s not the end of the world, but it is here to stay, and it will get some people, just not many.

Oh well..