This Is Your Brain on Cryptococcus: Pathogenic Fungus Loves Your Brain Sugar

This Is Your Brain on Cryptococcus: Pathogenic Fungus Loves Your Brain Sugar

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2010) — Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. In particular, they thrive on a sugar called inositol which is abundant in the human brain and spinal cord.

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Well I hope I never run across this fungus in my lifetime. So after reading this I decided to find out where the heck this stuff is located at and found out that it is mostly found in tropical and subtropical climates but has actually appeared in Canada and the US!!! It was found in British Columbia, Canada and Whatcom County, Washington. I wonder how long it will take for it to be in all states.. It was first found in the US in 2007.

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is there a doctor in the room? what would this do to a human? dizzy spells? pain? I bet it would kill them.
its not as if we dont have enough things to kill us!
could it be man made? and escape't?