If high-end, exotic coffee blends are your thing, then consider this your warning. A devastating fungus is wreaking havoc on the crops, meaning your cup of joe could cost a lot more; if you are lucky enough to find it in the first place. [More]
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High-End Coffee Drinkers Could Be Paying More For Their Java Thanks To Devastating Fungus
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Fungus Threatens To Make The Bananas You Eat Extinct
Do you like to eat bananas? Better get your fill in. A horrible fungus called “Tropical Race Four” is threatening to kill off the one variety that everyone eats, the Cavendish. [More]
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IHOP Serves You Nasty-Tasting Blueberry Pancakes
Reader Loren decided to get her midnight breakfast on with some pancakes at IHOP, but when she got home something tasted a bit off. She looked down and to her disgust, discovered what she thought to be a large area of mold engulfing the blueberries on the pancakes. Her letter and the not-safe-for-breakfast pictures, inside…
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CDC: MoistureLoc, Yep, It Had Fungus
An official report concluded Renu MositureLoc was the only eye care solution contributing to outbreaks of Fusarium infection earlier this year. They still had no clue why, though.
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Baush Apologizes With Free Eye-Solution
Users of Baush & Lomb eyecare products received a letter today.
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Lady Tells How Moistureloc Made Her Blind. Skeet. Skeet.
Here’s an eyewitness account of a user of the infamous Bausch & Lomb Renu Moisture Loc contact lens solution. She went blind in one eye. From the NYT:
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Baush & Lomb Yanks MoistureLoc From Shelves After Fungal Outbreaks
Baush & Lomb, scraping the craggy fungal barnacle crust from its eyes, announced today it will permanently pull from the worldwide markets its MoistureLoc contact lens solution linked to a rare eye fungus. Shares rose nearly 9%.