India has registered a global first of a plant fungus infecting humans
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The first case of a plant fungus infecting human beings has been reported from Kolkata.
A 61-year-old man suffering from a hoarse voice, cough, fatigue and difficulty in swallowing is infected by the fungal species Chondrostereum purpureum, says new medical reports. This is the first instance of a new danger that the human race may face in the near future. The fungus, Chondrostereum purpureum, is known to cause Silver leaf disease in plants. However, there were no reported instances of this fungus infecting human beings from any part of the world. Of the hundreds of millions of fungal species, only a few cause infections in humans. This may be the start of a new phenomenon when plant fungus is adapting to invade human cells by evading the process of ‘phagocytosis’. ‘Phagocytosis or ‘cell eating’, happens when a cell uses its plasma membrane to recognise and ingest particles larger than 0.5 μm to clean and defend itself.
Soma Dutta and Ujjwayini Ray of the Consultant Apollo Multispecialty Hospitals in the city detected the case from Kolkata.The case published recently in the journal Medical Mycology Case Reports has raised a serious concern that many such instances may happen in future. Human beings with a compromised immune system are most vulnerable to fungal infection.
We witnessed this during the COVID-19 pandemic when a secondary fungal infection from black fungus resulted in over 4,500 deaths. Most fungi thrive in the range of 12°C to 30°C. But to invade human cells, fungi, on one hand, have to be able to evade the phagocytosis pathway and should have the ability to grow at 35-37 °C temperature. Global warming means the narrowing of the thermal difference between the human body and its surroundings. Every degree increase in the global average temperature reduces this gradient by about 5%. This threat is magnified as some fungi can take the benefit of a natural selection-adaptation strategy, and therefore adapt to a higher temperature by thermal selection.
Fungal infections are expected to pose a more significant threat to human beings in the years to come due to climate change, and reasons such as growing resistance to the small number of treatments available.
He became the First of Us
Lol😂😂😂😂
Boys remember, headshots only. Don't make any noises, bats and axes are good for combat.
Definitely don't aim for the legs
Infected will make noise
See you on the other side
The guy who got infected, under which category he comes from -
1. Runner
2. Stalker
3. Clicker
4. Bloaters
Runner probably until it evolves
5. Shamblers
6. The Rat King
5. Rat
the old lasy on that fateful morning , never touch flour
average LAST OF US playa
Climate change is going to be the biggest threat for all the species. May this fungus disease doesn't get more serious 🙏 ( this is reminding me of the last of us)
It will get worse
more like.. the first of us
Zombies apocalypse on the way 🎉🥳
@@luffynishant4688 time to take out my baseball bat with nailed 😈😈😈
I hope a zombie type apocalypse happens
I request the team to also explain certain technical terms used in this informative video. For eg:- a short snippet explaining what is "thermal selection" would be greatly helpful.
Natural selection caused by the temperature conditions. Those that can survive and reproduce with an higher average global temperature are the fittest to survive in the changing environmental conditions.
Self explanatory though
didn't they teach you this in 10th grade? Evolution, gene flow, natural selection?
Due to rapid increases in global temperature, it is likely to impose strong directional selection on these fungal species. In simple words, the thermal selection is a sub-type of natural selection of these types of fungi due to an increase in temperature
Thermal selection from natural selection. The logic that is.
Mushrooms are fungus and not all fungus variety are edible. You must clarify the immunity of the victim before he got in contact with the fungus, the fungus was edible or not. Was the fungus infected or naturally poisonous?
While it is rare in nature, fungus have been reported to change host from from plants to animals, not just in incests but also crustacea(crabs), fish and even human
@@subliminalfalllenangel2108 for human it depends cus not all humans will be easily affected by the danger
@@subliminalfalllenangel2108 ...you meant insects?
The last of us soon I guess
@@subliminalfalllenangel2108 insest?
Unbelievable. This demands more investigation. Like how on earth such a host range change happened! Or what's the immune status of the patient etc.
There is a publication, the patient was not immunosupressed, so just starting maybe.
The fungi had started spawning roots in his trachea. Antifungals have made him recover since then
@@ssssssssssama still, how did it start spawning in his mouth?
@@mrj4082He was someone who studied plants so he likely got it from one of his trips in the forest. He was infected several years ago, the research of the case was only published this year. He since fully recovered and it appears to have been a freak event but it shows there is a danger of this happening again
It's called evolution. Our bad habits see forcing rapid evolution of various species. Hotter temps means fungus fan now grow in places it wouldn't otherwise, or previously dormant fungus is now waking up due to permafrost melts and forest fires and the like.
We are the most abundant large scale life on this planet, its ignorant to think nothing will evolve to attack us.
it's happening guys make sure to keep your arms arsenal stacked, we're gonna get through this together 💪
building a safe camp already
Arms arsenal to battle fungus??? Abbe apocalypse and walking dead ka fan h kya
@@nagratna793 last of us*
Last of us:Real life😂
I'll meet you at your base
This is a terrifying development.
Nothing humbles us humans more than mother nature herself
Working out can keep your body running hot and ready to fight any onset of infection. Good luck everyone.
Doomsday is coming! Imagine Cordyceps infecting humans 😬
LAST OF US
I always wanted to become a zombie hunter
@@blessed3594 also there's one called The Girl with all the Gifts
@@forrestgump5711 it's the other way around, u will become the hunted
cordyceps are eaten globally, also a species of cordyceps grows on grains.
This is very very scary
I just watched the last of us show. And hearing this news😢 i am terrified now.
That's mind blowing and terrifying at the same time
Nature is often like that. Take the sun for example.
How did the person come in contact with the fungus? Does it spread from person to person when in contact? How does the fungus spread among plants? Where in Kolkata did the fungus emerge? These are also the questions be raised and answered.
she is mycologist
@@siddharthdiwedi7262 it was He
exactly. they didn't specify whether it's airborne or oral nor did they mention the patients occupation/what they did to get infected
The voice and the way of representation, make this channel finest among all
Pathogenic Fungus usually take chance whenever possible, cases may be depend on immune power of victim
Research on fungus treatment should also increase as time goes by
i agree with you ..future is challenging for humanity ..
Hi
Mgtow jindabad
In line with this. To think that there are fungi spores making insects zombie like are existing is creepling.
And so it begins..
"What if, for instance, the world were to get slightly warmer?"
They adapt through it and Boom 💥
lol 💀
"We Lose"
We Lose
A person popping outside a skyscraper window to unleash spore upon a metropolis is closer than ever.
New fear unlocked 🔓
Lets pray Joel get Elle back to the lab.
Can you please explain "THERMAL SELECTION"?
Thank you for such insight!!
What she is saying is that fungus thrives in 30 plus temps and human body is 37.8 so once it gets the host it invades
Due to rapid increases in global temperature, it is likely to impose strong directional selection on these fungal species. In simple words, the thermal selection is a sub-type of natural selection of these types of fungi due to an increase in temperature
look it up
Every organism has a comfortable range of temperature. When the environment an organism lives in gets hotter the members of that organism that can thrive in the hotter environment survive and reproduce much more than other members. This causes the population to become more comfortable at higher temperature thus shifting the comfortable range of temperature for that population to higher temperatures. This is thermal selection.
Its just natural selection bro. Nothing complicated. Don't get scared by the terminology.
Don't worry guys, Just because a disease spread from Fungus, doesn't mean its gonna be a "Last of us" for all of us 😂😂...Be calm and wait for the next episode than spreading conspiracy.
On the next episode irl
Doctor : “bomb!”
Officer: “what?”
Doctor: “Bomb the f city!”
@@Curry.N Get your guns A zombie accolapyse is gonna come FROM USA THE DRUG WHICH IS EATING FLESH COMBINED WITH THIS WILL DEFINITELY BRING LAST OF US IN REAL LIFE
Too late I already moved to Iceland
But it does mean that if it can infect enough of us fast enough it could kill off our species.
Just watched ... the last of us .... relating to fungal infection...
Worrying signs...
Bro is the first of us😭
“What if the world were to get slightly warmer”
Resident Evil Megamycete becoming way too real!
Splitgill mushrooms have been known to cause infection in rare cases since the 50s
I hope this doesn't turn out to be something like the fungus from last of us
How beautifuly you explained with so much calmness❤
May the fungi kill us with calmness too
@@PhillyPhilip19 😂
Your thumbnail suggests you're happy with the news. Ironically it also says down to earth.
A web series called last of us show's how a fungs only infect insects is transmitted into humans and cause global pandemic
The thumbnail looks as though its some sort of achievement.
I need to buy that "Zombie apocalypse starter pack"
how will a common man recognize which one is the dangerous "Plant" or "fungus" and stay away ?
plant fungus have been affecting human beings since millions of years
Starting of “The Last Of Us” 😯
May be this’ll happen sooner than we thought.
Last of us just became very real .
The last of us, the game just got real.
It's because of the poor quality of the food that we consume, due to severely depleted soils and excess food processing; and also all pervasive environmental pollution.. A lowered immunity is an invitation to nature to finish off the tissues with poor vitality. Ultimately the fault is ours, our wrong ways.
Man he was not immunosupressed not malnourished. The threat is much bigger, the warming world.
He was a zoologist as far as I came to know.
Definitely not because of food
But this happened in India. They have mostly healthy food there.
Few line away from zombie apocalypse
Last of us getting real man! 😮
Ah, hell nah... I live in Kolkata and I'm really afraid that this is becoming a Resident Evil plot.
“The last of us “ happening😮
is this the beginig of the end
Terrifying, in a word
On a side note, the lighting of this video is perfect.
looks like a very familiar story ine.😯
I just finished watching the series and playing the game for the 2nd time…m scared now😮
Giving "Last of us" vibes
Isn’t mold a kind of fungus? In the US there are lot of reports of people who get infection from this mold in their homes. So why is this man said to be first? What am I missing? Is it that he is the first one growing a mushroom in his body?
Its plant fungus affecting humans.
@@ashwindsouza606 Bring The guns OR ELSE WATCH LAST OF US GAME ITS BETTER CUZ WE DON'T KNOW IN USA A FLESH EATING DRUG IS DISCOVERED AND NOW WE GOT CORTYCEPS PLEASE BRING GUNS
TLOU moment.
What a time to be alive
From Kolkata west bengal like here.
I recently saw HBO's 'The last of us' and thought there's no way its possible but now this news...
So closet chance is eating mushrooms but if we eat cooked mushroom curry should not be a problem ?
Miracle of Covid vaccines.
Well the last of us is gonna be the apocalypse we get
Just look at that thumbnail smile, she's proud that we have reached this milestone.
The chap was a fungus researcher. Not a common guy.
Zombie Apocalypse is near...😢😢
Cdc did warn us on a zombie outbreak look on UA-cam "cdc zombie preparedness"
🤦
How did he get infected? Ye to batao. Did he touch, eat or come in contact? Half news is useless
Wait.. is this a late April fools joke ? if not then it is a serious blow to the credibility of this channel that i enjoyed a lot.
why do you say that?
No it’s not
This is a real news
Thanks for the information
Nice presention
👏
Everybody gangsta until the fungus is revealed to be cordyceps 💀
How? Was he injecting that plant in his veins or something?
must be a plantophile
No, he did nothing wrong, if came though nose. Its fungus who need the credit.
Fungus spores are always in the air , it just that our immune system protects us
Awesome news for Nature and Nature's Creatures I wish this disease only effect humans not other creatures 🙏
Wtf man
What is this human hating behaviour?
@@kashutosh9132 because humans are selfish and do anything for survival and destroying earth and their Creatures for their need
Do you not care about yourself or your family and friends?
Wow maybe you should start sacrificing your own kin for the betterment of our planet with this ideology of yours
Gotta get my arsenal ready.
I am scared...when corona started spreading people blammed China for recording the first case...and now that the first case of this infectious disease has been recorded in India we might be the next target of the new global wrath 🥺
That will not happen. China was blamed so much because it did not report the disease to the world when it first started spreading thus making people from other countries unaware of it spreading to them before it was too late. India let the world know when the first case was reported so even if it spreads to the world now nobody can blame India for not letting them know early.
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🤡 cannot spread like corona
India is already hated for many other reasons. This would be just one extra on the list.
The last of us may become a reality
Proud to be Indian 🇮🇳
Spam karna band karo
Aye bavlat.
It's not something to be proud of bruh
Gawaar
This is terrifying.
‘The Last of Us’ type apocalypse may happen soon 😰😰
Only in india for natural selection to reduce their pointless numbers.
the first thing pops in my mind was 'last of us' series
Zombie Apocalypse is coming 😂 Cordyceps will make it happen.
Why the hell host is smiling did she even know what that means?
God save human from human !
What are the symptoms from this infection? Were animal infections reported before the human infection by this fungus?
Proud to be indian 🥳🇵🇰
Pakistan is now the part of India 😂
Why is she laughing on the thumbnail - is this happy news
This is brilliant news!
I know right?! Why dont you try it yourself first, lmk the reviews
I highly doubt it.
Where u at JOEL?
why ru sitting in dark ? do u have low voltage problem ?
Hence prove microbiology scope is more than farmacy
At least now we will know how it all started!!😵
*The Last of Us theme starts playing on a Sitar*
Use neem and turmeric always
Yeah baby, india is awsome. India is leading in everything 😂
Damn! We have a new series: The More of Them.
From now on i wouldn't dare to touch a fungus
Don’t automatically assume “Zombies.” You won’t know unless it happens.
It’s scientifically impossible for a zombie apocalypse to happen.
The worst thing that could happen to humans right now is a return of - - god forbid, COVID 19. Yes, I said it.
It's not impossible
What Covid ?
meanwhile me and the boys getting ready for apocalypse
Just because it hasn't been reported or diagnosed does not mean it has not happened ever. It's a mistaken assumption. Instead, this is the first time it's discovered and reported.
Last of us isn't that far away now is it 😢
Someone should make a horror movie about one of those mind control fungi controlling humans and spreading over the world 😮
Watch ‘The Last of Us’