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A deadly white-nose fungus has killed some 6 million bats in the past 5 years across the USA and Canada, and the trend looks set to rise.
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A group of Montana researchers working with the United States military has proposed a new, unique answer to the ongoing global epidemic destroying honey bee colonies: A fungus and virus working in tandem, aided by mites, may be the cause.
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The tell-tale lesions first found on tomato plants at a western Massachusetts farm last week mean bad news. The tomato blight is back.
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This fall tree lovers throughout the northeast, deep into the midwest and up into eastern Canada are dealing with a very visible maple tar spot assault.
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Party loving Kate Moss has to keep off the sauce while recovering from a fungal infection on the foot. She is having to take powerful antibiotics after getting a blotched pedicure.
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A warning has been issued to citizens in New York by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation not to feed geese or ducks. A fungus, Aspergillosis, has sickened and killed at least a dozen of these birds on a northern New York pond.
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A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel which they say holds great promise.
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Plants gained their ancestral toehold on dry land with considerable help from their fungal friends. Now, millennia later, that partnership is being exploited as a strategy to bolster biomass production for next-generation biofuels.
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In the Dordogne region of southwest France, lies a cave that houses Ice Age art dating back some 17,000 years ago. The walls and the art on them are now being consumed by bacteria and an unidentified black fungus.
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A new development in the fight against cancer: Recent research at the University of Haifa found that molecules found in common fungus Ganoderma lucidum aid in suppressing some of the mechanisms involved in the progression of prostate cancer.
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The global spread of a banana fungus is traced back to its origins in South-East Asia, research finds.
 A New Brunswick researcher is studying a bat fungus that has killed nearly seven million bats across North America and is continuing to spread.
They can cure human diseases - if saved from a deadly fungus
 The white-nose syndrome epidemic that has killed more than five million bats in Eastern Canada and the U.S. in recent years is likely caused by a fungus introduced from Europe by humans, a Canadian-led study has found.
White-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has killed more than 5.5 million bats, is continuing to spread across the US, data shows.
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CDC/Dr. Lucille K. Georg
This patient presented with ringworm on the arm, or tinea corporis due to Trichophyton mentagrophytes.
The genus Trichophyton inhabits the soil, humans or animals, and is one of the leading causes of hair, skin and nail infections, or dermatophytosis in humans.
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