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 ...

Fungal diseases are an emerging threat to human and animal health 1,2. The fungal pathogens Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii are both causative agents of cryptococcosis, a disease with an ...

(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 ...

In what is being described as 'The Teddy Roosevelt effect,' a deadly fungus in the Pacific Northwest may have arrived from Brazil via the Panama Canal, according to a new study. Cryptococcus gattii -- ...

Bacterial and viral are the more prevalent and commonly discussed forms of meningitis, but one infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says fungal meningitis stemming from ...

Scientists have discovered a unique mechanism that drives the spread of a deadly infection. Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered a unique mechanism that drives the spread of a ...

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered a unique mechanism that drives the spread of a deadly infection. Cryptococcosis is a rare and deadly fungal infection that affects the lung ...

All viewpoints expressed in the article are those of Kausik, and do not necessarily represent official positions of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Johns Hopkins University. A deadly ...

The ground rupturing may not be the only thing to fear from earthquakes. According to a new study in the journal mBio, we may also have to worry about a harmful fungus traveling on a tsunami. Since ...

A rare and dangerous fungal infection named Cryptococcus gattii has been quietly spreading from British Columbia southward to the U.S. Pacific Northwest. And it's changing as it goes. Researchers have ...