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Potentially deadly fungus spreading in U.S. and Canada
Reuters ^ | April 22, 2010 | Eric Beech

Posted on 04/23/2010 2:17:33 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

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Health scare du jour, or for real, or semi-for real like "mad cow." ???
1 posted on 04/23/2010 2:17:33 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

My toes HAVE been itching.


2 posted on 04/23/2010 2:19:52 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: La Enchiladita

I have heard a lot about fungus infections that can cause a myriad of health concerns, but I rarely hear about it from mainstream doctors, usually from people who see alternative medicine folks.


3 posted on 04/23/2010 2:20:02 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Is this like the bird flu? or any number of other crises that cannot go to waste?


4 posted on 04/23/2010 2:20:13 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: La Enchiladita

It’s what happens when irresponsible people with “compromised immunity” continue to participate in “alternative” lifestyles, all while pumped with anti-virals, anti-biotics, and anti-fungals.

Superbugs jump from their diseased bodies into the general population


5 posted on 04/23/2010 2:21:29 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: La Enchiladita

So... There’s a fungus among us.
Sorry couldn’t help it.


6 posted on 04/23/2010 2:21:34 PM PDT by gdzla
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To: GeronL

Sort of like that nightmare killer H1N1 that wasn’t???


7 posted on 04/23/2010 2:21:50 PM PDT by jackv (The darkness hates the light!)
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To: Jewbacca

It’s evolution 101.


8 posted on 04/23/2010 2:22:02 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: La Enchiladita

It’s been reported that it’s been here for ten years and so far five people have died from it ...


9 posted on 04/23/2010 2:22:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Those That Turn Their Swords into Plows Will Plow For Those That Don't.)
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I wonder how much it cost taxpayers to dispose of all the unused vaccine?


10 posted on 04/23/2010 2:23:11 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: La Enchiladita
I swear:

"It's Always Something".

We'll need a new government agency staffed with more Obama Commies to address this 'disease.'

11 posted on 04/23/2010 2:23:43 PM PDT by blam
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It’s been reported that it’s been here for ten years and so far five people have died from it ...

That is a catastrophic epidemic

12 posted on 04/23/2010 2:23:58 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: La Enchiladita
C. Gatti


13 posted on 04/23/2010 2:24:08 PM PDT by Daffynition ( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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To: La Enchiladita

21 cases, 6 deaths. Hardly the Black Death.


14 posted on 04/23/2010 2:24:29 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("And the pony looked a little bored...")
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To: blam

A crisis that cannot go to waste


15 posted on 04/23/2010 2:25:30 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: DonaldC
Fungal infections are prevalent in various climates but often present chronic low level symptoms. An example is coccidioidomycosis, endemic in the Southwest desert, commonly known as "valley fever," and affecting a large proportion of the population. Nobody dies from it, but it never completely goes away either.

"Mainstream medicine" knows all about it but there isn't much treatment available.

16 posted on 04/23/2010 2:26:37 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: La Enchiladita

It’s not a tumor! It’s a fungus!


17 posted on 04/23/2010 2:28:26 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Jack Hydrazine

A fungus among us!


18 posted on 04/23/2010 2:28:58 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: blam

Mayhap a Fungus Czar?


19 posted on 04/23/2010 2:29:53 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: La Enchiladita

And they had to get in that little “Climate Change” prod too.

To be perfectly honest, it is a little worrisome- it’s not a flash in the pan like a virus. It’ll establish itself in the environment and be here to stay.

I guess the best analogy would be West Nile- it’s not the end of the world, but it is here to stay, and it will get some people, just not many.

Oh well..


20 posted on 04/23/2010 2:31:03 PM PDT by verum ago (The United State Armed Forces: You mess with the best, you die like the rest!)
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