There is increasing interest in fungal allergy or even fungal infection as a cause of some chronic sinusitis.
The first two recalled baby formula containing high amounts of aflatoxin, a fungal carcinogen probably introduced via the feed for cows.
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An Essex tree nursery owner who burned 100 ash trees as a precaution against a fungal disease says government action is "too little, too late".
Signal crayfish carry a fungal disease known as crayfish plague that has wiped out the native crayfish from most rivers in the south of England.
Vince thought they'd be out by Christmas but got upset when a fungal infection raged on Zoe's foot in December, causing it to almost rot off.
But their numbers have declined dramatically in North America, where a fungal disease called white nose syndrome is estimated to have killed more than 5.5 million.
Or the seventy-year-old with a cancer that had metastasized to her lungs and bone, and a fungal pneumonia that arises only in the final phase of the illness.
The cause of death could have been the result of a fungal infection or animal damage, but because there was no obvious cause, she increasingly suspects drought and heat stress.
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Starbucks will test growing methods for eradicating a fungal disease known as coffee rust, which is shrinking Central American coffee harvests 25 percent on average this year, sending shock waves throughout the industry.
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Mushrooms, in fact, are merely the fruit of a vast subterranean fungal body, the mycelium, which waits in morbid repose for a natural disaster to prompt its libido.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is also reviewing its anidulafungin, a new drug for the treatment of deadly fungal infections that would be given once a month.
The FDA, you may recall, has recently made a concerted effort to inspect compounders in the wake of the fungal meningitis outbreak that was linked to a pharmacy called the New England Compounding Center.
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Pallimed's move comes after steroid injections distributed by a different Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, the now-closed New England Compounding Center, were linked to a deadly, multistate fungal meningitis outbreak.
On October 15, federal authorities said that another NECC steroid injection, triamcinolone acetonide, might have caused a patient to acquire fungal meningitis, and they began contacting all 192 state facilities that received any NECC injectable products.
To export yellow potatoes, farmers need to deal with bugs and fungal diseases, and to produce on a larger scale.
The incident began unfolding on September 24, when the department said it was notified about a cluster of six rare fungal meningitis cases in Tennessee.
Furthermore, adults under the age of 40 who took regular exercise had a 40% greater risk of fungal infection than those who did not.
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One can have skin reactions and rashes due to a reaction to bacterial, viral or fungal infection or an allergic reaction to medicines used to treat it.
The National Institutes of Health, unfortunately, describes fungal nail in less-than-clear terms: Fungal nail infection is an infection of the nails by a fungus.
The problem is not new (see: " Bug Wars"), but it is still getting worse, even as a spattering of new antibiotics and anti-fungal drugs reach the market.
Contrary to the claims of know-nothing critics like Bittman, such products are not only environmentally superior to conventional and (especially) organic offerings but would also offer the food industry a proven and practical means of tackling the fungal contamination at its source.
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The agency says some drugs should never be taken with Mevacor including protease inhibitors, a class of HIV drugs and certain drugs used to treat bacterial and fungal infections.
If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young red leaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.
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This week's unusual twist comes in the shape of a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which suggests a very different relationship between two of the major amphibian threats: loss of habitat, and the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.
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