Shitty journalism
When you click the link to the study, it says the fungus is only found in a small area, which is set to double, by 2100!
Plus the vast majority of people exhibit no symptoms, which is set to increase by 50%, 70 years from now
Scaremongering, please don’t link crap like that, take it to Reddit
Sorry, I didn’t think it was clickbaity scaremongering. I know Vox is not exactly a science publication, but it didn’t seem over the top to me.
Anyway I apologize, I won’t post a source like this in future.
Please don’t feel discouraged from posting sources like this! We don’t require links to be to primary literature or anything, and the video linked in the post is perfectly acceptable to be shared in this community. (If you want to also link to the primary source, eg in a comment, that’d be rad, but it’s not required by any means.)
The science is interesting. Nothing wrong with posting this. I would just recommend changing the title to something more informative - less clickbait.
I disagree that this is scaremongering. It’s a real thing that’s happening. Just because it’s on long timescale and affects relatively few people doesn’t mean it’s not worth studying and developing effective treatments. If anything the headline is maybe a little bit clickbait-y, but the article and video are – while obviously not primary sources – fairly measured in their portrayal, and the video even includes discussion from (folks who are presumably) experts in the field.
Edit: and for another example of a similarly regional soil-fungus-infects-humans line of research, see this paper.
