Is fungal pneumonia contagious?

Fungal pneumonia is not contagious, clinically you can see the fungal pneumonia caused by Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus, Trichoderma, etc. Normal people have strong resistance to these fungi. Even if patients with pulmonary fungal disease cough up droplets containing fungi, they will not develop after normal inhalation. Therefore, fungal pneumonia belongs to the conditionally pathogenic pneumonia, and the patients mostly develop in the case of low immunity, such as chronic underlying diseases, tuberculosis, malignant tumors, diabetes mellitus, malnutrition, burns, as well as the use of relevant catheter insertion, the prolonged use of antibiotics, immunosuppressants, and the patients with these high-risk conditions. These high-risk patients are susceptible to gradual onset of the disease after inhalation of the fungus. Therefore, normal people must maintain good immunity and resistance, generally does not occur fungal pneumonia, there is no need to worry about its infection.