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Springfield News-Leader: Ask the Master Gardener: Best practices for dealing with blight and other fungal disease Ask the Master Gardener: Best practices for dealing with blight and other fungal disease MONTICELLO, Ark. — A fungal disease infecting South Arkansas's pine forests has had forest health experts on high alert. It's called brown spot needle blight, and it infects pine needles, leading to ...
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Fungal diseases are the real thorns in the rose garden Forestry Research is reporting cases of sweet chestnut blight in Devon A new outbreak of a tree disease has been identified in Devon and has sparked an appeal for people to check their trees. Forestry ... Fungal infections, or mycosis, are diseases caused by a fungus (yeast or mold). Fungal infections are most common on your skin or nails, but fungi (plural of fungus) can also cause infections in your mouth, throat, lungs, urinary tract and many other parts of your body.
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Find a list of fungal diseases and navigate to their sites for more information. A fungal infection occurs when fungal microbes multiply and become too much for the immune system. Read about common types, their risk factors, and prevention.