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d'ohTopic: Science and Health
Train spotted and blogged an entry about this seemingly tame and slightly innocuous science story several days ago and it looks like there is more interest mounting daily..
...with good reason.
CNN reports
Killer fungus seen in Pacific Northwest
and the CBC
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This could be a consequence of global warming (man made or not!) as it would appear the warmer temperatures may be giving it a higher proliferation rate.
http://www.doctorfungus.org/Thefungi/Cryptococcus.htmhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746702/
http://www.cher.ubc.ca/cryptococcus/new/topics.htm
Quite fascinating really on how it relates to travel, shrinking trade borders (alien species), globalization and also the hyper global activity of anitbiotic use.
Posted by mach1231
at 5:34 PM PDT
