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13-Year-Old Finds Fungus Deadly To AIDS Patients Growing On Trees

Posted by samzenpus on from the nature-not-nurture dept.

An anonymous reader writes Researchers have pinpointed the environmental source of fungal infections that have been sickening HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California for decades. It literally grows on trees. The discovery is based on the science project of a 13-year-old girl, who spent the summer gathering soil and tree samples from areas around Los Angeles hardest hit by infections of the fungus named Cryptococcus gattii.

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  1. Re: Nature is fighting against gays... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny, gays weren't the ones who originally contracted the disease, nor are they the only ones who carry it. Any human can carry it, and it was traced back to cross breeding humans with monkeys decades ago. Blame the wierd eastern countries, not gay people you arrogant fuck.