Fungal Disease Awareness Week: Social Media Toolkit

At a glance

Fungal Disease Awareness Week (FDAW) 2024 is September 16th - 20th. Help raise awareness with these social media graphics and messages adaptable for all major platforms. Use #FungalWeek24 to help join efforts.

About the FDAW 2024 toolkit

The FDAW 2024 social media toolkit provides graphics and post messages for the daily taglines and topics. The toolkit includes messages for the general public and for healthcare providers for each day.

Graphics are sized for Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Linked In. Messages are written to meet character count restrictions and include short URLs.

Find more resources and instructions on how to create a threaded post on X at the bottom of this page.

FDAW Social Media Toolkit

FDAW, Promotional Post

A series of images showing the dates and themes of the fungal disease awareness week. Text reads, “9/16- Testing and antifungals, 9/17- Fungal diseases and One Health, 9/18- Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9/19- Fungal pneumonias, 9/20- The future of fungal diseases.”
Fungal Disease Awareness Week 2024

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For Everyone

Fungal Disease Awareness Week is September 16-20. Each day will highlight a different fungal disease topic. For #FungalWeek24, raise awareness to help protect people, plants, and animals from the growing impact of fungal diseases. https://bit.ly/4dyCy6u (253 characters)

For Healthcare Providers

Worldwide, fungal diseases and antimicrobial-resistant fungi are increasing. Fungal Disease Awareness Week is September 16-20. Learn about fungal diseases during #FungalWeek24 and raise awareness to help reduce the harmful effects of fungal diseases. https://bit.ly/4dyCy6u (273 characters)

FDAW, Day 1: Think Fungus

A healthcare professional speaking with a patient surrounded by various medical testing devices including test tubes, swabs, antifungal medication and creams, urine and blood samples. Text reads, “Think Fungus: Diagnostic tests keep antifungals working their best.”
Think Fungus- Diagnostic tests keep antifungals working their best.

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For everyone:

Misdiagnosis of fungal diseases can lead to severe illness and the development of antimicrobial resistance if you are given the wrong treatment. If you are taking medication and not getting better, ask your doctor about fungal disease testing. #FungalWeek24 https://bit.ly/3YUkbob (280 characters)

For healthcare providers:

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Overuse or misuse of antifungal medications can lead to antifungal-resistant infections. Confirming fungal diagnoses with laboratory testing helps ensure the correct diagnosis and treatment. (190 characters)

Appropriate use of antifungals improves patient outcomes and is important for preserving available treatment options. #FungalWeek24. Learn more: https://wb.md/3T1roPE (169 characters)

FDAW, Day 2: Fungi Are Everywhere

A person interacting with various outdoor settings including petting a wounded cat, trimming a bush, and sitting in a grassy area while leaves and spores float in the air and into the persons’ lungs. Text reads: “Fungi are everywhere: on animals, in the environment, in the air”
Fungi are everywhere on animals, in the environment and in the air.

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For everyone:

People can get fungal diseases from contact with an infected animal, skin scrapes that are exposed to fungi in dirt or plants, and from breathing fungal spores in the air. Learn about how fungal diseases are a One Health issue. #FungalWeek24 https://bit.ly/4cvKYKN (267 characters)

For healthcare providers:

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Sporotrichosis, has typically been caused by Sporothrix in plant matter. In the last two decades, the species S. brasiliensis emerged and is linked to cat-to-human transmission. (178 characters)

While it has not spread locally in the U.S., cat-transmitted sporotrichosis is widespread in South America, causing more severe infections including among immunocompetent patients. #FungalWeek24. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4dtU0Jt (229 characters)

FDAW, Day 3: Neglected Tropical Diseases

A person using crutches and wearing open toed shoes walking through a rural, arid area. The person’s lower extremity is visibly affected by a fungal infection and is magnified showing skin lesions on their ankle. Text reads. “Neglected tropical diseases: fungal infections and unmet needs.”
Neglected Tropical Diseases: Fungal infections and unmet needs.

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For everyone:

For #FungalWeek24 raise awareness about fungal skin infections like chromoblastomycosis, sporotrichosis, and mycetoma. Improving early access to diagnosis and treatment can prevent severe infections and complications. https://bit.ly/470gm2H (261 characters)

For healthcare providers:

Chromoblastomycosis, sporotrichosis, and mycetoma are neglected tropical diseases affecting the skin. Left untreated they lead to bone damage, tissue fibrosis, skin cancer, and even amputation.

Take free WHO courses to learn more. #FungalWeek24 https://bit.ly/3KTcsOP (265 characters)

FDAW, Day 4: Lung Infections Won't Go Away

A healthcare professional speaking to a coughing patient and a graphic of a chart of information about lungs. Text reads, “Lung infection won’t go away? Learn about fungal pneumonias today.”
Lung Infection Won't Go Away? Learn about fungal pneumonias today.

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For everyone:

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Fungal pneumonias—Valley fever, histoplasmosis, & blastomycosis—are often misdiagnosed. Treatment delays can lead to severe, sometimes chronic, symptoms.

Raise awareness about fungal pneumonias to help increase early diagnosis and treatment. #FungalWeek24 https://bit.ly/3YUANfl (279 characters)

For healthcare providers:

Some fungal infections—Valley fever, histoplasmosis, and blastomycosis—can look like pneumonia and often go undiagnosed. #FungalWeek24 save or print CDC's diagnostic algorithms to diagnose and treat these fungal diseases. https://bit.ly/3yQu4sq (250 characters)

FDAW, Day 5: Rising Heat Makes Fungi Harder to Beat

The earth in the center, and the right side shows people with skin lesions and illnesses. The text reads “The future of Fungal diseases” and “Rising heat makes fungi harder to beat.”
The future of fungal diseases. Rising Heat Makes Fungi Harder to Beat

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For everyone:

Climate change may cause fungal diseases to emerge.

As temperatures rise, more fungi may adapt and become able to survive at the human body temperature and cause infections. #FungalWeek24 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4dN2Xx2 (226 characters)

For healthcare providers:

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Climate change is expanding the areas where disease-causing fungi can live. Fungi may adapt to higher temperatures and become pathogenic. (138 characters)

Meanwhile more people are living with health conditions and immunosuppressive treatments that increase fungal disease risk. #FungalWeek24 Learn more https://bit.ly/4fVgCE9 (173 characters)

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Threaded posts on X:

Select posts that exceed the character count for X are written to be used as a post thread.

To do this:

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  2. Click the highlighted plus icon to add the second part of the post.
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