Deadly New Fungus Emerging in Oregon Expected to Spread

Live Science ^ | Apr 22, 2010 | Charles Q. Choi

[decimon]

Northwest passage ping.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Good! I hope it gets all the tree huggers.

[omega4179]

Obama can’t even run the forestries right.

[El Sordo]

Dangit. We’re all goona die...

[sam_paine]

You can slip and crack your skull in the bathtub too!

Which is more likely?

[Funee Kat]

It’s just one thing after another.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Humble Servant]

” “It’s in the environment, and we’re exposed to the environment,” “

Nuke the environment before it nukes us.

[brytlea]

So, what are you suggesting? We don’t care to study a new fungus infecting humans?

[OB1kNOb]

There’s a new fungus amongus.....

[Paladin2]

Stay outta da Bushes.

[onedoug]

barry’ll get right on it after he’s plugged all the volcanoes.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“”It’s in the environment, and we’re exposed to the environment,” researcher Edmond Byrnes III of Duke University Medical Center told LiveScience. “And the environmental range of this has been expanding.”

There is only one “Sane” thing to do here. We must destroy the “environment” lest we all perish. I’m calling my Congressman now.

[Star Traveler]

Hmmm..., maybe it was good that I moved recently ... :-)

[Williams]

From Wikipedia:

From 1999 through to early 2008, two hundred and sixteen people in British Columbia contracted the disease, and eight died from it.

That’s a far cry from the 1 in 4 deaths claimed in the Yahoo article.

It’s usually a tropical disease so naturally they blamed global warming for it being in B.C. But then I don’t think we have it farther south. Yet.

[donhunt]

I’ll betcha’ a good dose of global warming would sniffle this fungus.

[magslinger]

No researcher got his funding by understating the possible dangers his topic of research could present.

[sonofagun]

...new hypervirulent combinations of genes emerged due to sex. The researchers also noted that cell components known as mitochondria in these strains could adopt a distinctive tube shape.

This almost sounds like a satirical piece.

[dr_who]

I guess it’s all our fault again. What else could explain why humanity hasn’t become extinct after so many countless plagues over who knows how many thousands of years? What’s the earth’s population now? Never mind. Doesn’t matter. We’re all gonna die. Better stock up on mint chocolate chip ice cream before I forget.