argumate:

huh so drug resistant fungi are colonising hospitals and we have no way to stop them, great, great.

Every so often you see something about how the Reagan administration didn’t take HIV/AIDS seriously, and that’s true, but a data point often cited in favor of this is how much more funding went to Legionnaire’s Disease

But Legionnaire’s Disease wasn’t pattycake, the very real fear was that every hospital or other large closed environment would harbor, in its bones, a disease that would infect inhabitants and kill about 10% of victims even if didn’t evolve immunity to the deep-cut antibiotics it was vulnerable to

In the end it was mostly suppressed by improved HVAC design more than medical breakthroughs