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...frantic investigation to determine the cause of the illness. Health workers have fanned out across the reservation, taking samples of food, water and soil, as well as combing through the coats of cows, sheep and dogs for hair, ticks, fleas and fecal matter. "We've excluded the usual bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections," says Dr. Ron Voorhees, a New Mexico state epidemiologist. Ruled out are anthrax, plague and Legionnaires' disease, as well as insecticides and other toxins. Two bacteria are among the suspects: Mycoplasma fermentans and Chlamydia pneumoniae, both of which can cause fatal lung inflammations. But topping the list...
...findings may explain why fungal infections are so hard to control, since drugs that attack fungi often hurt people as well. And conscientious vegetarians may be discombobulated: Are mushrooms one more thing they...
...even the passing feet of farm workers, the spores can travel up to hundreds of miles on the surface of dust particles. Central California's six-year drought, which has been interspersed with warm, heavy rains, as well as the region's construction boom, provided the ideal conditions for fungal proliferation...
...cannot make as strong a case for the late as for the early Ernst. Some of the sculpture of his post-1939 years was remarkable -- especially the big totemic Capricorn, 1948 -- but his apocalyptic paintings, like the vision of creepy, fungal disaster recorded in Europe After the Rain, 1940-42, look like sci-fi cliche. By the '50s he was thinking illustratively rather than pictorially. To some extent he always had, but now the visions were more diffuse, and the paintings of his last decade (he died in 1976) are feebly hermetic. No matter. He was always a painter...
...good since you will have to cross it if you wander over to the Harvard University Museums of Natural History. The glass flowers at the Botanical Museum look remarkably lifelike. Be forwarned, however, that a good portion of the specimens were designed to show the effects of various fungal diseases on fruits and vegetables. But, hey, Harvard never promised you a rose garden...