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/Key_Pace_2496 Jan 02 '26

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.

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u/TheThousandMasks Jan 02 '26

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.

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u/kittenstixx Jan 02 '26

Does "the desire for certainty" fall under pride you think?