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Fatal Fungus

Forensic Files

Season 2Episode 7Aired 1997-11-20
Fatal Fungus

Fatal Fungus

An infant was rushed to a Cleveland emergency room with serious breathing problems. The baby’s lungs were bleeding, a life threatening, extremely rare condition. Within months, there were more than 30 cases – an incidence more than a thousand times higher than anywhere else in the world. Doctors had never seen anything like it, and searched frantically for the cause and a cure.