Word: microsporon
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...Misnamed more than 500 years ago, ringworm is caused not by a worm but by a fungus, usually Microsporon audouini. In North America the commonest fungus disease is popularly called "athlete's foot...
...head on the back of a public seat. He thereby infected many other little Queens boys who lolled back in the same seat. They infected more chairs, more little boys. Then some little Queens boys infected chair backs and friends in Manhattan, and ringworm (a fungus infection caused by Microsporon audouini) began its vicious circle. Now there are infected seats in New York City's cinemansions, barber shops, subways and busses...
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