Posted on 04/23/2010 2:17:33 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.
The airborne fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, usually only infects transplant and AIDS patients and people with otherwise compromised immune systems, but the new strain is genetically different, the researchers said.
"This novel fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people," said Edmond Byrnes of Duke University in North Carolina, who led the study.
"The findings presented here document that the outbreak of C. gattii in Western North America is continuing to expand throughout this temperate region," the researchers said in their report, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Pathogens here
"Our findings suggest further expansion into neighboring regions is likely to occur and aim to increase disease awareness in the region."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“...Freezing can kill the fungus and climate change may be helping it spread, the researchers said.”
Interesting non-sequiteur on that last gratuitous sentence where the reporter just couldn’t resist putting something in there that proved beyond doubt that they were in the Obama IQ set.
Note the use of the term “climate change” as bad and freezing as good.
I thought “climate change” implied warming (you know, that one that all “scientists” claiming it would get an F in physics 101 if they tried that bull-Obama in a class).
“The Killer Fungus from Saskatoon”
Sounds like a boffo second feature at the drive-in this summer (following on the bill after America’s #1 raging blockbuster, “Invasion of the Money Snatchers”)
I guess the people who take immunosuppressant drugs like Enbrel for arthritis had better watch out.
Tinactin will do the job.
That’s what I am wondering. I don’t watch morning TV shows because they are disease-mongers.
I nominate Tony "El Puto" Villaraigosa, so we can get rid of him as L.A. mayor.
ouch. my son takes that. too bad I can’t open the link
I heard it is caused by global warming and causes people to become homosexuals.
The usual piece of crap to scare everybody.
You are correct.
I thought Evo Morales said chickens caused homosexuality?
Indeed. I does like a movie that Joe Bob Briggs would review and MST3K would riff.
I’m more worried about the spread of the fungus Cryptobamus Status which unchecked leads to the death of Liberty.
Dittos and I think that is why the media propaganda machine wants our attention elsewhere.
Worse than the H1N1 -— Good Grief! Get the UN involved, close schools, Close Chippendales!!!! No, wait .....
Let have anonther Olympics there to spread the carp even further worldwide. The starvation of the American people is next. Unfortunately, hardly anyone sees it. They’re too busy being the good shhep that they are.
Less than 1% of the people who get Valley Fever die from it. Not exactly a raging epidemic, but I wouldn’t say nobody.
The truth is, if we taught real science to our kids they would understand this stuff and they could sift thru the information that was tossed out by the media and know what they needed to worry about and what was just interesting trivia.
Let’s make a VACCINE !
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