Cryptococcus gattii: How did it end up in the Pacific Northwest?

In what is being described as "The Teddy Roosevelt effect," a deadly fungus in the Pacific Northwest may have arrived from Brazil via the Panama Canal, according to a new study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Cryptococcus gattii - which until a 1999 outbreak in British Columbia's Vancouver Island was considered primarily a ["]

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