{"id":172630,"date":"2023-09-23T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/plant-fungus-infected-a-human-in-first-reported-case-of-its-kind"},"modified":"2023-09-23T14:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:23:38","slug":"plant-fungus-infected-a-human-in-first-reported-case-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/plant-fungus-infected-a-human-in-first-reported-case-of-its-kind","title":{"rendered":"Plant Fungus Infected a Human in First Reported Case of Its Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plant-fungus-infected-a-human-in-first-reported-case-of-its-kind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wondered when this would happen. Reminds me of the video game \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d and there\u2019s a TV series as well. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll stop it though.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Silver leaf disease is a curse for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/disease\/silver-leaf\">variety of botanicals<\/a>, from pears to roses to rhododendron. Infecting their leaves and branches, the fungus <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chondrostereum_purpureum\">Chondrostereum purpureum<\/a><\/em> can be fatal for the plant if not quickly treated.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the risk of losing the occasional rose bush, the fungal disease has never been considered a problem for humans. Until this year.<\/p>\n<p>In what researchers suggest is the first reported case of its kind, a 61-year-old Indian mycologist appears to have contracted a rather serious case of silver leaf disease in his own throat, providing a rare example of a pathogen seemingly making an enormous leap across entire kingdoms in the tree of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered when this would happen. Reminds me of the video game \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d and there\u2019s a TV series as well. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll stop it though. Silver leaf disease is a curse for a variety of botanicals, from pears to roses to rhododendron. Infecting their leaves and branches, the fungus Chondrostereum purpureum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}