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Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy
- 26 Dec 2011
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- 25December11 Disease Health
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Amebic meningoencephalitis in the brain caused by Naegleria fowleri. The disease was imaged by direct fluorescent antibody staining. Credit: CDC

Louisiana's state health department has issued a warning about the dangers of improperly using nasal-irrigation devices called neti pots, responding to two recent deaths in the state that are thought to have resulted from "brain-eating amoebas" entering people's brains through their sinuses while they were using the devices.

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Researchers use maggots to heal diabetic wounds
- 1 Oct 2011
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- 30September11 Diabetes Disease Infection Medicine Remedies Treatment
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"Maggots feed on only dead tissue and leave the living tissue only. They produce a chemical which liquefies the dead tissue so they can suck it up. The maggots secrete chemicals that then stimulate the growth of granulation tissue necessary for the wounds to heal."

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The Evolution of Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae { Cedar Apple Rust }
- 30 Jun 2011
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- 29June11 Disease Flora Fungus Life Cycle
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"Cedar apple rust? A strange name for a fungus which affects the juniper, you might think. Yet cedar apple rust is so named because it is a disease which requires two hosts to complete its life cycle. To begin with it will spend the winter as a purple colored gall which looks a little like a brain on the branches of Juniperus virginiana....Although the glutinous orange mass looks deadly it does not kill either the juniper or its secondary hosts. However, it will infect apples and will also defoliate the trees so whenever farmers discover it, they will naturally attempt to eradicate it."

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Wheat infected with ergot fungus
- 20 Apr 2011
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- 20Apr11 Agriculture Disease Photomicrography
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by Anna Gordon, National Institute of Agricultural Biology, and Fernan Federici, University of Cambridge

Confocal micrograph of wheat stigma hairs (blue) infected with ergot fungus (light pink). The stigma is the female part of the plant. The plant is fertilised by the (male) pollen grain, which sticks to a stigma hair causing growth of a pollen tube into the plant's ovary, causing an embryonic wheat grain to develop.

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Plight of the Bumblebee
- 16 Dec 2010
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With a tenth of US and Canadian bumblebee species under threat, researchers are drawing up a plan of Thom Wilson
action.

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Tiny, Beautiful....and Deadly : A Gallery
- 2 Dec 2010
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Credit: David Stuart/Oxford University, Wellcome Images

Structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus. An outbreak in the UK 2001 led to the slaughter of some 7 million animals and cost an estimated 8 billion GBP. It only very rarely affects people.

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Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy

Researchers use maggots to heal diabetic wounds

The Evolution of Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae { Cedar Apple Rust }

Wheat infected with ergot fungus

Plight of the Bumblebee

Tiny, Beautiful....and Deadly : A Gallery

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