Biological Health Services

How a fungus is causing problems for party goers

Fungal Outbreak at California Festival Sparks Fears of Disease Risk In the midst of their revelry, festival-goers in California unwittingly kicked up the invisible spores of a dangerous fungus while dancing in the dust.

A beautiful article describing how movement through time is described and the physics behind it.

Quantum Physics Has Reopened Zeno’s Paradoxes For thousands of years, scholars pondered the question of how anything can move in our world. The problem seemed to have been solved—until the development of quantum mechanics

Are warmer temperatures causing fungi to attack humans? Two deaths in China suggest it may be

The pathogen’s unusual characteristics raise concerns that climate change could make fungal infections increasingly dangerous to humans

Read in The Telegraph:

Are warmer temperatures causing fungi to attack humans? Two deaths in China suggest it may be — The Telegraph The pathogen’s unusual characteristics raise concerns that climate change could make fungal infections increasingly dangerous to humans

More reasons to look out for other immune triggers like mould. Beware of black mould mucormycosis also.

COVID's Hidden Toll: Full-Body Scans Reveal Long-Term Immune Effects — ScienceAlert Even in those without long COVID.

This is interesting and shows the impact of localized microbial colonisation.

Early-life nasal microbiota dynamics relate to longitudinal respiratory phenotypes in urban children Five distinct respiratory phenotypes based on latent classes of longitudinal patterns of wheezing, allergic sensitization. and pulmonary function meas…