You planning to go to Canada? To the West Coast, by any chance? Perhaps to Vancouver Island? Good luck and hope you get out alive. The Globe says a tropical and potentially lethal fungus that has mysteriously made its home on Canada's temperate West Coast has prompted foreign medical experts to issue a worldwide alert to doctors and tourists after doctors found clumps of the fungus growing inside a Danish man's chest.
The fungus is usually found in tropical or subtropical locales in Australia, Africa, India or South America and it lodges deep in the lungs, leading to pneumonia, attacking the central nervous system and resulting in meningitis. As of December, 2006, 165 people had been infected and eight have died.
Don’t say I never bring you the good news.
Don`t like the sounds of this! Sounds very alarming. Have to go and read the globe link....
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Seems like it's restricted to warmish, moist areas, which Van is. I was sick each time I went there.
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