New airborne fungus can be deadly but there's no reason to panic. Apr. 23, 2010— -- It sounds like a plot straight out of a science fiction movie: A new strain of a deadly airborne fungus in ...

Last October when my 17-year-old cat, Abby, came down with a rattly chest, I took her to the vet thinking maybe a quick course of antibiotics would fix her right up. I had no idea she would end up ...

(CBS) There is a fungus among us and it's deadly serious. Cryptococcus gattii has been blamed for 15 deaths over the last six years. The fungus is usually found in the tropics, but is now calling the ...

Teen's science project helps track a fungus deadly to AIDS patients One-third of all AIDS patients in the world die from complications of an infection by the fungus Cryptococcus gattii. Its source in ...

A rare fungus that has killed eight and infected almost 200 people and hundreds more animals in British Columbia appears to have migrated to Washington. Through environmental sampling, scientists have ...

A new strain of hypervirulent, deadly Cryptococcus gattii fungus has been discovered in the United States, a new study says. The outbreak has already killed six people in Oregon, and it will likely ...

Cryptococcus gattii may be more common than previously thought and has caused a significant number of infections in the HIV/AIDS population. For the study, C. gattii infections reported among patients ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original is here. A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Clinical outcomes were reviewed for 4 patients with Cryptococcus gattii central nervous system infection who received dexamethasone for the ...