This disease’s deadliest weapon is the fact you’ve never heard of it
A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has grown rapidly in recent years, to the extent that government agencies in US and Canada have labelled the infection an outbreak. Top image by Paxson Woelber The infection, cryptococcosis, affects the lungs first, because it is…
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Kausik Datta, Johns Hopkins Medicine – The Conversation
