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Green Mountain to buy more coffee despite fungal attack
2013-11-07 09:43:28| Food - Topix.net
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc, the world's biggest fair-trade coffee buyer, expects to purchase about a fifth more coffee during the new fiscal year, up from 180 million pounds last year, said a top company buyer.
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Green Mountain to buy more coffee despite fungal attack
2013-11-07 08:57:46| Beverages - Topix.net
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc, the world's biggest fair-trade coffee buyer, expects to purchase about a fifth more coffee during the new fiscal year, up from 180 million pounds last year, said a top company buyer.
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New Compound Prevents First Steps Of Fungal Infection
2013-08-19 05:01:21| drugdiscoveryonline News Articles
Targeting serious and sometimes deadly fungal infections, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) has discovered a chemical compound that prevents fungal cells from adhering to surfaces, which, typically, is the first step of the infection process used by the human pathogen Candida albicans (C. albicans).
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Rare fungal illness follows tornado
2013-04-09 14:38:31| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental Health Perspectives: More than 1,000 people were injured when a severe tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, on 22 May 2011, and 158 eventually died.1 Within a few days of the tornado, several of the injured began to suffer from a fungal infection suspected to be cutaneous necrotizing mucormycosis. Doctors scrambled to do what they could, but testing to identify the specific causal fungus lagged, treatment (including surgery and medications) was sometimes ineffective, and five people died.2 A team of U.S. researchers...
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