How did a deadly tropical fungus get to the temperate environs of the Pacific Northwest?
Opening of the Panama Canal as the gateway of pathogen migration from Brazil to Canada
Date:
January 18, 2018
Source:
The Translational Genomics Research Institute
Summary:
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 -- which until a 1999 outbreak in British Columbia's Vancouver Island was considered primarily a tropical fungus -- can cause deadly lung and brain infections in both people and animals.
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