(CBS) There is a fungus among us and it's deadly serious. Cryptococcus gattii has been blamed for 15 deaths over the last six years. The fungus is usually found in the tropics, but is now calling the ...

VICTORIA, B.C. – The mystery emerged slowly, its clues maddeningly diverse. Sally Lester, an animal pathologist at a British Columbia laboratory, slipped a slide under her microscope – a tissue from a ...

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Last October when my 17-year-old cat, Abby, came down with a rattly chest, I took her to the vet thinking maybe a quick course of antibiotics would fix her right up. I had no idea ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original is here. A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has ...

A new strain of hypervirulent, deadly Cryptococcus gattii fungus has been discovered in the United States, a new study says. The outbreak has already killed six people in Oregon, and it will likely ...

VICTORIA, B.C. — The mystery emerged slowly, its clues maddeningly diverse. Sally Lester, an animal pathologist at a British Columbia laboratory, slipped a slide under her microscope — a tissue from a ...

Cryptococcus gattii may be more common than previously thought and has caused a significant number of infections in the HIV/AIDS population. For the study, C. gattii infections reported among patients ...