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Potting mix and compost are a breeding ground for fungi, but how likely are you to get sick?
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Potting mix and compost are a breeding ground for fungi, but how likely are you to get sick?

ABC  

Gardening is a healthy and fulfilling hobby for many Australians. "It's not an uncommon thing in gardening; sometimes people can injure themselves and have some sort of puncture that introduces soil into their body," Professor Slavin says. While fungal infections are rare, taking precautions while gardening can help reduce your risk, Professor Slavin says. Professor Slavin explains it's important for …

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Could gut fungi be linked to severe COVID? What to make of new research findings
1 year, 2 months ago

Could gut fungi be linked to severe COVID? What to make of new research findings

The Hindu  

Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. Now, a new study has found severe COVID may be related to fungal bugs in our gut microbiome. They gave the mice some of the fungal organisms taken from COVID patients and measured some of the same outcomes, including antibodies in the blood. …

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Why It Matters | In a first, plant fungus infects man from Kolkata
1 year, 8 months ago

Why It Matters | In a first, plant fungus infects man from Kolkata

The Hindu  

What are the facts? Researchers have come across the first instance of a human being infected by a plant fungus, in this case Chondrostereum purpureum. He is a plant mycologist by profession and dealt with decaying mushrooms and fungi for a prolonged period of time, according to a paper published in the journal Medical Mycology Case Reports. A fungus needs …

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Mould in blood could help doctors spot cancers, as experts find fungi living in cancer cells
2 years, 2 months ago

Mould in blood could help doctors spot cancers, as experts find fungi living in cancer cells

Daily Mail  

Doctors could one day spot aggressive forms of cancer using a test that looks for mould spores in the blood. A group of international experts have found that fungi – organisms that include yeast, moulds and mushrooms – live inside cancer cells. As traces of them can be detected in blood, experts believe the discovery could eventually help doctors to …

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Busting Myth: Fungal Disease Reported During COVID Second Wave is Mucormycosis, Not Black Fungus
3 years, 6 months ago

Busting Myth: Fungal Disease Reported During COVID Second Wave is Mucormycosis, Not Black Fungus

News 18  

If black fungus had emotions, it would have been pained and hurt. As if the devastating second wave of COVID-19 was not enough, starting early May, reports of a new health condition with symptoms of fever—headache, cough, pain and redness around eye and nose—shortness of breath, black discolouration over nose, alternation in mental status such as confusion or forgetting things …

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