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There’s a nasty strain of a highly contagious drug-resistant ringworm that is impacting a part of the United States. What does that mean for the rest of us? Idaho Matters finds out.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the northern long-eared bat as endangered. The bat’s populations are being decimated by a fungal infection called white nose syndrome. While these bats only touch Montana and Wyoming in our region, they could spread this fungus to other hibernating bats in the Mountain West.
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Researchers say the fungus behind a disease called Valley fever may spread in the Mountain West as rain and temperature patterns change.Coccidioides fungi…
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There’s a fungus wiping out a special kind of toad that lives in the Rocky Mountains, but scientists may have a solution: a probiotic skin soak. The...
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Winds from the Pacific coast bring much-needed rains to dry Southern Idaho this time of year. For wheat farmers, they may also carry a tiny threat: fungal…