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InvisibleveggieM

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Toxic fungus moving into Oregon
    #7820998 - 01/01/08 06:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Toxic fungus moving into Oregon
January 1, 2008 - kmtr.com

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - It sounds like the stuff of campfire tales: A toxic fungus in the woods of the Pacific Northwest that drifts into peoples' lungs, causing illness and death.

But cryptococcus gattii is out there and has affected a handful of Oregonians. Most recently, a Junction City woman was hospitalized for more than four months this fall.

The fungus has sickened about 180 residents in the Northwest, and killed eight people since it was first detected on Vancouver Island in 1999.

Previously it was associated with tropical and subtropical climates. Nobody is quite sure how it wound up in Oregon. But scientists say it may have arrived on an imported plant or bird.

Symptoms include severe cough and shortness of breath, often accompanied by chills, night sweats and anorexia.


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Re: Toxic fungus moving into Oregon [Re: veggie]
    #7823176 - 01/02/08 10:50 AM (16 years, 30 days ago)

damn, scratch PNW off my list of places to camp out in


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