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...townspeople of little Milan, Mich, watched with satisfaction last week as a work crew cut down the fine old elms and maples around the junior high school parking lot. It was not that they did not love trees. But an odd combination of trees plus bird droppings plus fungus spores plus children had given Milan (rhymes with pylon) a strange epidemic...
...Milan in 1958, schoolchildren had been given scratches on both arms: one for the tuberculin test, the other for histoplasmosis. This disease, which is like TB in the variety of its effects-ranging from an undetectable, mild infection to fulminating and rapidly fatal cases-is caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum. Unrecognized until 50 years ago, histoplasmosis is still often mistaken for, and mistakenly treated as, TB. It is now known to be especially common in the mid-continent states. But Milan's infection rate turned out to be an astonishing 62%, contrasted with 8% in adjoining towns...
...brash U.S. Congressman wanted him to autograph a 100-yen bill; he refused. A fussily frugal man who goes around turning out unneeded lights, Hirohito is fond of wandering in old clothes about the grounds with a trowel in hand in case he spots a choice sample of fungus. But the Emperor's real passion is the crab. On his days off, wearing a leather jacket, work pants and high boots, he boards a coast guard cutter and voyages along the shores of Sagami Bay, where women divers search the bottom for him. He reserves each Monday, Thursday...
...satellite's second purpose was to help determine the effects of outer-space radiation on future astronauts. Inside the recovered capsule were human bone marrow, blood cells and tissue from the underside of a human eyelid, as well as fungus spores and algae. After analysis, the results will be compared with similar materials which were recovered from Discoverer XVII, when it was snatched in mid-air last month...
...former student, according to reports in a Boston newspaper, contracted a "fungus disease of the blood" in the winter of 1957-58 while a sophomore at the Medical School. The paper said he was admitted to an infirmary operated by the School and later transferred to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. The University has neither confirmed nor denied these details...