Cryptococcus gattii - spooky

Take your vitamins  everybody, keep those immune systems pumped up. 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126198896&ps=cprs

"One of the first Vancouver Island cases, back in 2001, was a 45-year-old woman who had gone kayaking in a provincial park on the island's eastern shore. Over a period of months, her symptoms progressed from headaches and night sweats to a fulminant brain infection. By the time she died, in early 2002, she was blind and couldn't walk or speak."

Yikes!!! Scary stuff. I'll quit complaining about the rashes I get from the tualatin river. Thoughts and prayers to the family. I hate seeing one of "us" go down.

A whole 220 cases in the past 11 years.  Man, I better go buy a cemetery plot right now!