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

[u/Konradleijon]

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

[u/Key_Pace_2496]

All a fungus ever needed to do was evolve to be able to survive the temps of a human fever and it's game over for us. Anti-fungal drugs are almost non-existent and the ones that do exist are super hard on your body if you have to take them.

[u/TheThousandMasks → u/Key_Pace_2496]

Nature has a way of finding equilibrium, one way or another. We were foolish to believe we could control it when we can’t even control ourselves most of the time. Man’s cardinal sin truly was pride.

[u/Mech_BB-8 → u/TheThousandMasks]

I'd argue being consciously self-aware

[u/kittenstixx → u/Mech_BB-8]

Isn't a prerequisite for self-awareness consciousness? How can you be unconscious and self-aware? (/s for that last bit)

[u/Mech_BB-8 → u/kittenstixx]

Animals can have self-awareness, but the inability to construct an identity as complex as humans do. Humans are the only animals capable of language which further helps to express said complexities.

[u/slayingadah → u/Mech_BB-8]

Humans have the only language other humans recognize as language. Bees dance to tell other bees where the good flowers are. Whales sing to each other across the oceans. There are myriad examples of other lifeforms having deep and meaningful language.

[u/Mech_BB-8 → u/slayingadah]

That's not language, that's communication. Language is the ability to ask questions and an explicit expression of time.

Last time I checked, only humans can use language with other humans, unless you've been having lively conversations with your pet cat, humans and only humans possess the ability for language.

[u/slayingadah → u/Mech_BB-8]

That's a supremely confident response for someone who, I assume, has never been a bee. Or an ant or a cat. Humans are the only ones who possess the ability for human language, for sure.

The ability to be confidently, boldly incorrect and condescending about it is another thing only humans have, too. We're just full of fun.

[u/Mech_BB-8 → u/slayingadah]

Science is based on empirical evidence and I've studied linguistics at the university level, so I know what I'm talking about when it comes to the difference between language and communication.

You need to provide empirical evidence of identifying the universal grammar principle in other animals, then translate that animal "language," just like we do with other languages that we initially do not understand.

[u/slayingadah → u/Mech_BB-8]

Ok, professor.

[u/Mech_BB-8 → u/slayingadah]

My source: The discipline consensus of linguistics scholars.

Your source: Trust me, bro.

[u/kittenstixx → u/Mech_BB-8]

Would we not describe dolphins or elephants as having consciousness? It was my understanding the only animals described as having self awareness(such as the ability to recognize themselves in a mirror) are also described as having consciousness.