Global-Warming-Related-Illnesses Proceed Full Steam Ahead...
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Subject: Science and Global-Warming-Related-Illnesses Proceed Full
Steam Ahead...
Date: Apr 22, 2010 7:56 PM
Despite the Fear of Prosecution on
the part of IDSA, we have a new immune
disabling fungal illness (to go with the
bats, the honeybees, and LYMErix disease...)
(Wrath of God Department)
Oh, well. Whaddya gonna do. Yale
*had* to have *their* criminal way. Now
there's something for which we have no medicine...
something related to the Reality Version of "Lyme
Disease."
All those years and lives wasted...
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L66H20100422
Potentially deadly fungus spreading in U.S. and Canada
WASHINGTON
Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:22pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
U.S. | Health | COP15
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."
The new strain appears to be unusually deadly, with a mortality rate
of about 25 percent among the 21 U.S. cases analyzed, they said.
"From 1999 through 2003, the cases were largely restricted to
Vancouver Island," the report reads.
"Between 2003 and 2006, the outbreak expanded into neighboring
mainland British Columbia and then into Washington and Oregon from
2005 to 2009. Based on this historical trajectory of expansion, the
outbreak may continue to expand into the neighboring region of
Northern California, and possibly further."
The spore-forming fungus can cause symptoms in people and animals two
weeks or more after exposure. They include a cough that lasts for
weeks, sharp chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, fever,
nighttime sweats and weight loss.
It has also turned up in cats, dogs, an alpaca and a sheep.
Freezing can kill the fungus and climate change may be helping it
spread, the researchers said.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci