Like a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic plot, rising temperatures are causing fungi to mutate in ways that not only make them hyper-infectious but drug-resistant, too.
This is deeply concerning as our world warms, Nanjing Medical University researcher Jingjing Huang and colleagues warn.
“The danger and importance of new fungal pathogens is believed to be seriously underestimated,” they write in their new paper.
“Temperature-dependent mutagenesis can enable the development of pan-drug resistance and hypervirulence in fungi, and support the idea that global warming can promote the evolution of new fungal pathogens.”
Yes, UV-C bulbs fuck mold. I have one that creates ozone and one that doesn’t. The ozone bulb scares me but holy hell does it work well. I grew psychedelic mushrooms for about 18 months once and turned one of the rooms in my house I to a clean room. Never had any kind of mold contamination. The downside to the ozone is, other than being bad to breath, it corrodes stuff and will kill electronics. I had a router in the clean room and it died in like 4 months of running the bulb for 15 minutes a day. I eventually just started only using the non-ozone generating bulb. I don’t grow anything like that anymore so I just run it in the bathroom for like 30 minutes a night.
I attach them to an old swing arm lamp so I can direct them if need be or just point it straight up to hit the whole room. I used it a lot during COVID and ran it over all our groceries and stuff. For a few minutes. I have UV glasses and would cover my skin. I would not even go in a room with the ozone bulb. Shits dangerous. I use them with extreme caution.
They look like this
Wow! There’s useful to know. I don’t think I’ll risk using one in general because a simple dehumidifier is enough to keep the mold away in my place. But I’ll look into it further if I have to live somewhere that’s riddled with the stuff.