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...researcher also found antibodies produced by the body to combat the fungus in the blood stream of more than half of his subjects...
Illegally obtained marijuana often contains a common fungus which can cause lung infections and allergic reactions, a researcher at the Milwaukee County General Hospital said in a report published last week...
...Steven L. Kagan said that in recent tests he had found Aspergillus fumigatus in 11 out of 12 marijuana cigarettes and evidence of the fungus in the blood of 11 out of 21 marijuana smokers...
Kagan, who announced his findings in a letter to the editor published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, used a machine adapted to "smoke" a lit marijuana cigarette to test the fungus content in various marijuana samples...
...fungus came straight through, unimpeded, which proves that it can implant itself deeply into the lungs," Kagan said...