13-Year-Old Finds Fungus Deadly To AIDS Patients Growing On Trees 134
An anonymous reader writes Researchers have pinpointed the environmental source of fungal infections that have been sickening HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California for decades. It literally grows on trees. The discovery is based on the science project of a 13-year-old girl, who spent the summer gathering soil and tree samples from areas around Los Angeles hardest hit by infections of the fungus named Cryptococcus gattii.
Wonderful title (Score:4, Funny)
I did'nt know there were AIDS patients growing on trees...
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
AIDS patients grow on trees now?
It's a right-wing government conspiracy! (Score:4, Funny)
2) Disseminate a fungus which grows on trees so we can target those left-wing tree-huggers. Check.
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
Damnit - I forgot the part where we nuke the whales. Oh, well - nothing's perfect.
Re:The Tools of Science (Score:5, Funny)
The girl did not do the science. She just assisted the scientists with the manual labor.
So she's, what, a grad student?