Invisible wrote:
> UncleHoot wrote:
>> In the movie "The Happening" the trees start attacking people (more or
>> less).  They released some sort of toxin.  Kind of a goofy concept in
>> the way that it worked in the movie, but this article is quite
>> troubling. Perhaps "The Environment" is fighting back.
> 
> Nah, new diseases and pathogens have been comming into existence for
> millennia. (Otherwise we'd have all evolved total resistence to them
> long ago.) It's just that before now, we wouldn't have known about it.
> We'd just see people dying and not know why. (You might also argue that
> population density might make disease spread less dramatically...)

This isn't even a new pathogen. It's the same old fungus that has killed
people in the tropics for decades, just showing up outside of the
expected area and acting a bit more dangerous. It may be a new species,
but right now it is still classed as just a new strain of the same old
spore.

Sounds like a beast of a spore to kill, though. Antifungal medications
are nasty, most of them will cause kidney, liver, bleeding problems,
along with all sorts of side effects. I think the saying goes "The
infection hasn't killed you yet. We have drugs that can fix that."

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