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Unknown Airborne Fungi Kills Six
Topic Started: May 7 2010, 01:30 PM (135 Views)
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I thought there was a thread on this already but I couldn't find it.

Mystery Disease Linked to Missing Israeli Scientist
Friday 07 May 2010
by: H.P. Albarelli Jr., t r u t h o u t | Report


(Photo: chickeninthewoods; Edited: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)
Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least six people in Oregon, Washington and Idaho is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm about the emergence of the strain, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus gatti fungi. Cryptococcus gatti is normally found in tropical and subtropical locations in India, South America, Africa and Australia. Microbiologists in the United States are reporting that the strain found here, for reasons not yet fully understood, is far deadlier than any found overseas.

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The remainder of this article is very, very interesting.
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