Find Out How Deadly Fungi can be

The common notion about fungus is that they are something that smells or looks disgusting. But ask David Perlin, executive director of the Public Health Research Institute at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and the response will be far more somber- because he knows how deadly fungi can be. "More than a million people around the world are blind because of fungal infections of the eye," Perlin points out, "and half of the world's 350,000 asthma-related ...