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

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 sillybilly · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There is a lot of joking about sheep fucking in Scotland, but I don't think it's practiced much. And even if it is, it does not turn people into pure sheep only fuckers, who don't even get hard from a woman. Though there is such a thing as jaded, too much of women or too much pussy may make you lose your excitement over it after a while, and then something brand new and fresh and exciting, like sheep booty, may still get you excited, so it's all very complicated. Getting bored of the same old same old booty is what keeps the US divorce rate over 50%, nothing else. I mean job and economic stress helps at it, but it does comes down to sexual appetite and getting bored. Then you get crazy things like threesomes and swinger parties, where the couples are not jealous and can stick together for longer, but usually it happens by a jealous exclusive couple catching one of the partners cheating, and then it's over. Cheating cheating cheating. Why you consider it cheating? Ask to come along next time instead, and save your marriage, especially if you still got kids at home dependent on a stable family in their most vulnerable and sensitive teen years.