FUNGAL infection 'ate huge holes in his lungs' - as killer infection spreads

[Infolurker]

Some more Plague doom porn. The Fungus is going to eat us.



Chef, 29, dies after catching a FUNGAL infection that 'ate huge holes in his lungs' - as killer infection spreads across America

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...lungs.html

A chef in Michigan has died from a fungal infection that ravaged his body for months - amid signs the strain is growing across the US.


Ian Pritchard, 29, from Petoskey, was taken off life support over the weekend at his own request after weeks of suffering and pain, according to his family who said the fungus 'ate holes in his lungs'.

He was originally hospitalized around Thanksgiving with flu-like symptoms and transferred to a Detroit hospital for more intensive care where he was diagnosed with blastomycosis.

His condition quickly deteriorated as the spores moved deep into his lungs infecting the tissue there, making them look like ‘Swiss cheese’, according to his father Ron.

The fungal infection was brought on by exposure to the blastomyces fungus that lurks in soil, wet leaves, and rotting wood across much of the Midwest.

Health officials have not found the source of Ian's infection but his social media is flooded with images of himself spending time outdoors shooting with friends and running around with his black Labrador Retriever.

Infections in that region have been ticking up recent years, though the true toll of the fungus in the US is not known because the vast majority of states are not required to report them to the government.

Ian was a chef at a Harbor Springs Tex-Mex restaurant called Rodrigo’s before he died.

His father Ron said: ‘He was a good kid. He didn’t get in very much trouble, he was no trouble to raise.

‘People love his food, people love him.’

Ian was in the hospital for months before succumbing to the infection on Saturday.

The week before Thanksgiving, he was admitted to hospital.

While It’s not clear what his symptoms were early on, but the early stages of blastomycosis infection typically resemble a flu-like illness.

Symptoms early on include cough, fever, chills, muscle aches, joint pain, and chest pain.

Mr Pritchard’s condition deteriorated quickly, and he was transferred to the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. It was there that doctors pinpointed the cause of his infection to be exposure to blastomyces.

In all, Ian was in the Detroit hospital for over five weeks.

His father Ron said: ‘They showed us a picture of his lungs, and they literally looked like Swiss cheese.’

The infection occurs when a person inhales spores of the blastomyces fungus, typically found in wet leaves, soil, and rotting wood. Infection from breathing in the spores is rare and only about half of those exposed will experience symptoms.

The infection begins in the lungs, where the spores lodge themselves into lung tissue.

The immune system launches an assault against the infection, sending an army of white blood cells to the lungs. This leads to inflammation in the lung tissue, though, causing lasting damage.

Blastomycosis can spread in the bloodstream to different parts of the body, including the bones, brain, and other organs. It kills between four and 22 percent of its victims.

Antifungal treatments are available, including Itraconazole and Amphotericin B. But the infection evaded anti-fungal medicine, which meant that Ian would not be able to get a much-needed lung transplant.

Ron Pritchard’s coworkers set up a GoFundMe page to help the family defray travel costs to stay with their son in the hospital and the medical bills piling up. Ian’s antifungal medicines alone cost about $7,000 for a month’s supply.

According to an update on the GoFundMe page, Ian was responsive in his final days, and it was his decision to let go, asking his family to pull the plug.

The Pritchards have now lost two children. The first was Ian’s older brother, who was stillborn at eight months. Both boys were survived by their sister Megan, who was by Ian’s side when he passed away.

Exposure to blastomyces is relatively common in the upper Midwest and areas surrounding the Great Lakes.

Rare fungal infection blastomycosis is spreading beyond expected regions in the US: Study

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/heal...356675007/


Wife, 31, was killed by a rare FUNGUS that is growing across the US

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...ly-US.html

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Authorities in Washington state confirmed an outbreak of a deadly fungal infection that has been on the rise across the United States in recent years.
Officials in King County, Washington, said in a statement on Tuesday that an outbreak involving three patients infected by Candida auris, or C. auris, was reported at Kindred Hospital in Seattle beginning in mid-January. Another case was detected on Jan. 26 at a nursing home in nearby Snohomish County, officials said.
“These patients had previously tested negative for C. auris when they were first admitted,” it said. “This is the first known outbreak of C. auris in Washington state.”

The health department said it will “work together” with Kindred Hospital to limit the transmission of C. auris, including keeping those who test positive for the fungal infection to stay “away from other patients.”
Kindred Hospital will also notify other facilities that “received patients who were previously at Kindred and will notify facilities that may receive any patient who screens positive for C. auris,” the county’s statement added.
“As is the case with many multi-drug resistant organisms, it can be difficult to identify the initial source of the infection, and while the investigation is ongoing, the original source of C. auris in this situation may never be identified,” the statement continued. “However, with the early identification of these cases, there is a greater opportunity to reduce the risk of further spread.”

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Just how deep do the fungal issues really go?


Fungal Infections in The Brain May Cause Alzheimer's-Like Symptoms


From ABC news Australia, 27 Oct 2022:

Fungal infections increasing during pandemic, expanding globally due to climate change, WHO says.

Justin Beardsley from the University of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute led the WHO Fungal Priority Pathogens List's study group.

He hopes the research will provide a roadmap for a global effort to tackle current and emerging fungal pathogens.

"Fungi are the 'forgotten' infectious disease," Dr Beardsley said.

Four fungi identified as 'critical'

The list divides the pathogens into three categories — critical, high and medium priority — based on their potential impact and data on their resistance risk.

The fungi of greatest concern are the four critical priority pathogens, ranked highest due to their public health impact or risk of antifungal resistance.

The critical group includes:

• Candida auris, which is highly drug-resistant and has caused a number of outbreaks in hospitals worldwide
  
• Cryptococcus neoformans, which has a propensity to infect the brain, especially in immunocompromised individuals
  
• Aspergillus fumigatus, which mainly affects the lungs, and is becoming increasingly resistant to azole medicines
  
• Candida albicans, which is a newly emerged pathogen.
  

Cryptococcus neoformans is the more terrifying pathogen.

Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic?

The origins and global spread of two recent, yet quite different, pandemic diseases is discussed and reviewed in depth: Candida auris, a eukaryotic fungal disease, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a positive strand RNA viral respiratory disease. Both these diseases display highly distinctive patterns of sudden emergence and global spread, which are not easy to understand by conventional epidemiological analysis based on simple infection-driven human-to-human spread of an infectious disease (assumed to jump suddenly and thus genetically, from an animal reservoir). Both these enigmatic diseases make sense however under a Panspermia in-fall model and the evidence consistent with such a model is critically reviewed.

Journal papers:

Fungal EVs, pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans -
Pathogenic Delivery: The Biological Roles of Cryptococcal Extracellular Vesicles


Interaction of Cryptococcus neoformans Extracellular Vesicles with the Cell Wall

Follow that up with some light reading centered around table 1 in this paper:

Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Cryptococcus neoformans Contain Protein Components Associated with Virulence


Vomocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans cells from murine, bone marrow-derived dendritic cells


Paradoxical roles of alveolar macrophages in the host response to Cryptococcus neoformans

Where this gets odd, and I haven't been able to wrap my head around it, is that this pathogen C. neoformans can be implicated in nearly every biological damage that we see in Havana Syndrome victims, various UFO experiences, and multiple types of brain structure changes like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.

I suspect there are larger names in the UFO/UAP phenomenon circles that are looking for/at this too. Ionizing radiation and C. neoformans in this article: 

Ionizing radiation and chemical oxidant exposure impacts on Cryptococcus neoformans transfer RNAs

Here's a good source for the overgrowth set up:

"Melanized W. dermatitidis and C. neoformans cells exposed to ionizing radiation approximately 500 times higher than background grew significantly faster":
Ionizing Radiation: how fungi cope, adapt, and exploit with the help of melanin

That article indicates C. neoformans resistance to ionizing radiation (IR), meaning that it keeps on going with minimal damage. However, it also replicates much faster in the presence of IR. That's an issue, and there have been mentions of IR concern re: Havana Syndrome.

There's a similar pattern with lung-to-brain issues with cryptococcus neoformans. It's just as prevalent in the environment as candida or aspergillus.

Melanization is a key virulence factor for C. neoformans. Increased by exposure to IR. Look at Havana as two parts and the whole set up may start making more sense.

"Melanin is a critical virulence factor in the basidiomycete fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, which causes fatal meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised patients and is responsible for more than 220,000 infections and 180,000 deaths globally every year.":

Unraveling Melanin Biosynthesis and Signaling Networks in Cryptococcus neoformans

C. neoformans is commensal to the human biome, passes the Blood–brain barrier easily, even in immunocompetent populations. Exposed to IR like referenced in Havana cases it becomes more virulent, reproduces quicker, and increases resistance.


It's just a potential angle on Havana Syndrome that pointed directed energy (radiation) at the pathogen that's already present in the central nervous system (neoformans) and then it causes damage similar to the common Havana complaints.

For example, some reports of experiencer and Havana brain symptoms present similarly to the article below. Neoformans in the body can be hard to track unless it becomes out of control due to immune issues or if disturbed by something like Havana.

Cryptococcal choroid plexitis: rare imaging findings of central nervous system cryptococcal infection in an immunocompetent individual

Looking at Havana through this lens may provide answers. And Havana Syndrome refuses to go away. Interesting list of countries. They seem to be formalizing reporting requirements through the DOD so it's possible alleged victims are now less likely to go public because they have an official channel to work through.


Wenstrup Introduces 'Havana Syndrome' Health Bill

Note that Abigail Spanberger is a former CIA operations officer.


And on the note of neoformans being present and dormant in most, there are some good points in the conclusions from this article:

"The observation that the infecting organism had been (or at least could have been) acquired long before the infection was diagnosed should be taken into account in the prospective development of prophylactic programs, such as vaccination or antifungal therapy, for populations at particularly high risk of developing cryptococcosis..."
Epidemiological Evidence for Dormant Cryptococcus neoformans Infection


The image below is Cryptococcus Neoformans (a type of human pathogenic fungus) causing astrocyte issues in the brain. It even contributes to making the blood brain barrier permeable. Its effects are well documented in immuno-compromised populations, but think "brain fog".



You might be wondering if this has a prevalence in contactees/abductees or some of those experiencers brains or those persons that go missing for days/weeks/months/years due to sudden unexplained onset of amnesia in which most all cases also complained of severe headaches?

No idea if there is a connection but there is patterns. Look into cryptococcal brain disease and read through this article carefully...

Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing anomalous effects on the brains

And of course the alphabet agencies have always had an interest in "fungi":

...Panoramic was among 80 organizations that worked on Project MK-Ultra, the CIA’s infamous “mind control” program, best known for the psychological tortures it inflicted on frequently unwilling human subjects. Through a front called the Medical Sciences Research Foundation, Panoramic appears to have been assigned to subprojects 93 and 94, on the study of bacterial and fungal toxins and “the remote directional control of activities of selected species of animals.” Research by David H. Price, an anthropologist at Saint Martin’s University, shows that Woody and his colleagues also received money from the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA front that provided grants to scientists whose work might improve the agency’s interrogation techniques or act as camouflage for that work. (The CIA would neither confirm nor deny any knowledge of, or connection to, Woody or Panoramic.)

The Secret History of Facial Recognition

Ok, I probably provided way too much info and no, I certainly do not understand it all. My interest on this X-Files subject grew after listening to...

"Hitchhikers, Healings, and the phenomenon - a fungal link?"




Vid description:

Where do UFOs and Non Human Intelligences fit into a biological attack on human DNA via fungus?

Seth shares his remarkable journey from sickness to health and his interactions with Non Human Intelligences that may have led him on his path.

Is there a link between malicious fungus and a control mechanism for humanity? Seth is a researcher and bio-hacker and has uncovered strange correlations between fungus inside the human body. What happens after its removed ? The increase in potential for increased psi abilities and much more.

Can we remove the stranglehold that what some describe as a "cosmic death fungus" from our bodies and increase our abilities by knocking the dust of our antenna? 

This is a very deep convo and I have attempted to provide ALL of the links to the topics we discussed for further research and investigation.

Cosmic Death Fungus pdf - https://www.docdroid.net/U1Jl1vP/cdf-nac-protocol-pdf

Beneath the vid is a laundry list of links.

Although, not a science doctor of any kind, over the past several years Seth has done a phenomenal amount of research into this fungi enigma trying to connect many dots and holistic medicine of which he cured himself.


Stranger things...

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Damn bio-lab researchers ...

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

I had the Aspergillus fumigatus fungal infection in my lungs. A CT scan found a nodule that the doctors thought might be cancer which turned out to be Aspergillus. I also had a fungal infection in my left ear, not sure what kind but I think it was another strain of Aspergillus. The doctor thought it was swimmer's ear, which is bacterial, then had a culture made and said it was some kind of yeast fungal infection.

This guy had either a Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii fungus. Both Aspergillus and Blastomyces  fungi are very common and most people who get serious fungal infections are immune-compromised. My infections weren't that serious, but they could have been much worse had my immune system been weakened.

What to know about blastomycosis

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

That CDC map displays what appears to me to be an unusual pattern of cases though out the states. 

I can understand the southern tier of states up to Texas as these are warm and wet climates. Further west is a lot drier, so I don't understand those outbreaks.

As for that column of states from Florida up through Michigan and Minnesota, I can understand that too due to the Mississippi Valley and the forest ecosystems east of the Plains states.

The Great Plains west of the Mississippi River makes sense to me, except when you get up into the Pacific Northwest. Idaho has no cases and it has a similar climate and ecology as West Michigan, so what is the difference when these fungi are so incredibly common, particularly in the Midwest? Altitude? Except that doesn't explain the Great Plains states.

If I were to look deeper, I would look at population more than climate and geography, maybe that is more of a factor in the spread of this fungus.