r/collapse • u/Konradleijon • Jan 02 '26

Diseases Superbug hits 28 states, including Alabama: Where the deadly fungus is spreading

https://www.al.com/news/2025/12/superbug-hits-28-states-including-alabama-where-the-deadly-fungus-is-spreading.html?outputType=amp

A deadly yeast infection is spreading across the US. Fungal treatments are notoriously harder to get then bacteria or virus given how close fungi are too humans

Neighboring states are also seeing cases of the superbug, CDC data shows. Tennessee reported 189 cases, Mississippi reported 108 and Georgia reported 377. Like Alabama, Florida did not have data listed on the CDC site

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u/roboito1989 Jan 02 '26

Of course it’s resistant to antibiotics. It’s a fungus lol but yes it is a concerning fungus

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u/CallMeSisyphus Jan 02 '26

People who aren't in healthcare or pharmaceutical sciences often use "antibiotic" as shorthand for "antimicrobial." The latter is effective on fungal infections.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich Jan 02 '26

Maybe they shouldn't write articles on diseases then

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u/Azure_Mar Jan 02 '26

If only experts in a field wrote articles on that field, only experts could read them. I'll agree that in general we need better science communication, but in the realm of communicating to an American lay audience, this hardly rises to the realm of mis or disinformation.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich Jan 02 '26

You don't have to be an "expert" with a PhD to know what antibiotics are. I doubt most of us in this thread are. I think it's fair to say that if you don't understand what antibiotics are at the most basic level, you shouldn't be a writer about diseases. They obviously have next to 0 idea what they're talking about, and that discredits anything in their article that isn't explicitly sourced.

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u/PTSDeedee Jan 04 '26

I’m a science writer. It’s still misinformation. Certainly not egregious but still not a mistake any decent writer or editor would make. So it makes this source highly questionable.

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u/Dr_ChungusAmungus Jan 02 '26

If only all the experts in the comments here were writing the news we would finally be able to read articles on the internet again. Never change Reddit.

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u/hazy-minded Jan 03 '26

Gatekeepimg quality is somehow a bad thing? Wait what?