Eldorado Posted October 1, 2019 #1 Share Posted October 1, 2019 "The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 and the tsunamis it spawned may have washed a tropical fungus ashore, leading to a subsequent outbreak of often-fatal infections among people in coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest, according to a paper co-authored by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the nonprofit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope. "In the paper, to publish Oct. 1 in the journal mBio, the co-authors confront the mystery of the Cryptococcus gattii outbreak in the Pacific Northwest." Full article at News Medical: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191001/Researchers-confront-mystery-of-tropical-fungal-outbreak-in-the-Pacific-Northwest.aspx At John Hopkins: https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2019/did-long-ago-tsunamis-lead-to-mysterious-tropical-fungal-outbreak-in-pacific-northwest.html "On the Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in the Pacific Northwest: Ballast Tanks, Tsunamis, and Black Swans" Research Paper at mBio: https://mbio.asm.org/content/10/5/e02193-19 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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