Can a Fungus Wipe Out the Human Race?

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Is it a scene like “The Last of Us”?
Where our ecosystems and human tissues
Riding wild and rodding like melted bad cheese
Describing mozzarella under a thick umbrella

Humans no longer function … they’re zombies
With fungal brain eating healthy creatures
Now, they become them …It’s an insanity and Overwhelms us to question!

Can a fungus …
Wipe out the human race?
Yea, can a fungus wipe out the human race?
Like tasting a bad salami in Miami …

Hearing deadly tsunamis
Racing like a zombies …
Caused by earth’s crust
Crushing as plate titanic

How scary an apoplectic fungus
That turns apocalyptic
Is it realistic?
Deadly infectious and futuristic pathogens

Let’s name the deadliest …
Because of its spiraling fungal spores
That threatens and roars …
Like a silent storm rushing in uncontrolled

The chytrid fungus … grabs insects
Crawls onto frogs and bats by so called
White-nose syndrome … Candida auris, MDRO Yeast doesn’t react much to ABX’s

What do I mean by ABX’s
It’s an abbreviation! It’s antibiotic for short!
What is it all that?
Multi-drug resistant organisms

Not good at all …
Carries huge risk on humans
On the weaken victims …
May possess risks in healthcare environments

It’s like hearing a roaster at night
As you try to sleep …
It’s voice you hear all night in your head
Of zombies crawling on your bed

It’s the episodes of some tv shows
“The Last of Us”
Where they break your door
Not matter how tall or strong you are
You are weak!

Just thinking is an exhaustion
Unable to rest, tired, numb thinking
You dumb not able to defend …
Should you cry and/or shout out

MDRO, C.auris no antibiotics (ABX’s) to treat
The once susceptible ones
Are now resistant to no drugs as regime
A real dilemma as you feel the tremors

Can climate change stir the pot
As temperature rises up?
Mammals temp: 98.6 F/37 C degrees
Humans are adaptable not to bad bugs

Does fungus post damage to our ecosystems?
Yes? Think of honeybee inside its abdomen, its Abdominal tissue full of Nosema or Chalkbrood
Swollen bellies hard larvae now becomes
… mummies from an unhealthy tummies

Is it time to run dear honey?
Well, fungus can’t change humans to zombies
It can turn a honey to an un-honey bee
No longer sweet that can be but death

What causes fungus to go in disarray?
Chalkbrood caused by:
Ascosphaera apis
Infects the larvae

Descriptively a black devil walks in
As is the turning of white-black
Rubbery mummies not normally
What walks in uncontrolled temp’s?

Conditions could be …
Turned on by cold, wet or poor hive vents
Leading to no good events
The sun darkens in …

There’s others deadly ones …
That of more than dead of enormousity
The likes as invasive C.albicans, Aspergillous fumigatus; black mold, pneumocystis jirovecii

More deadly fold are C. neoformans
Cryptococcal meningitis
Spinal cord, CSF infection
Swelled of the brain as is deadly

Symptoms appears really hard as headaches
Spiking in temperatures
Stiff neck follow by confusion
Nausea and vomiting … can lead to death

How spread? Directly from dirt
Inhalation of yeast spores
Breathing in pigeon droppings
How you ID super quick?

BioFire FilmArray
Yea, BioFire FilmArray
Meningitis/Encephalitis
M/E panel
ID within an hour

Cultures takes 24-to 48 hours
Rapid thinking …
A must to save lives
With spiking fever and confusion

Reasons to act fast …
A Microbiologist enters steps in
To save the day …
As patient escapes death thru her hands

A man or woman of sciences walked in
Clothed in white and a microscope
It’s an encapsulated yeast with a halo
Not an angel but India Ink wet mount

It’s molecular technology
At its best Polymerase chain reaction, PCR
Treatment 3rd generation cephalosporins
Ceftriaxone or cefotaxime
… yea, Cef-tri-a-zone or cefo-ta-xime

Now ..
I like to end
We’ve killed
This unfriend, hooray

Minerva A. Garcia, your Poet