Word: fungi
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Severe immunological vulnerability poses some tricky medical problems. "Specific infections can be treated," says Internist Henry Masur of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "but the person will usually just come down with another infection two months later." Masur has seen homosexual patients be sieged by bacteria, fungi and offbeat viruses, all in quick succession. "Why this group has something suddenly wrong with its immunity is a mystery...
...Ehrlich's case histories really back up their hypothetical arguments. They call attention to the diversity of organisms: "A gram of fertile agricultural soil has yielded over 30,000 one-celled animals, 50,000 algae, 400,000 fungi, and over 2.5 billion bacteria." Yet they fail to show how man is currently destroying his own food basket. They note briefly that other civilizations, like those in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, could not maintain their irrigation systems properly and withered away with their crops. But history, no matter how harrowing, does not always parallel the present. The potential catastrophes that...
...assume that all street marijuana is contaminated with a number of fungi and molds that can be inhaled by the user," Kagan said in Milwaukee last week, adding that illegal marijuana is "a significant health hazard...
Another biologist, Donald H. Pfister, associate professor of Biology and a specialist in the study of fungi, will officially take over July 1 as curator of the Farlow Herbarium and Library, the largest university-associated collection of lower-order plants in the world. Pfister will also become a full professor in the Biology department...
Pfister, whose scientific specialty is mycology--the study of fungi--has managed the gerbarium and library unofficially for six years since coming to Harvard in 1974, but his recent appointment makes the position permanent...