The one shared element across the affected facilities was salt.

Aspergillus fumigatus is a mold that is found all over the world. Unlike closely related species, it can cause serious, often fatal infections in humans. What makes A. fumigatus so dangerous? An ...

Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd, Allschwil (SIX: BSLN), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to meeting the needs of patients with severe bacterial and fungal infections, announced today ...

Seattle Children’s hospital is again coping with a mold in its operating rooms that has persisted at the hospital for nearly 20 years and has been linked to seven deaths. There are no known new ...

The Aspergillus mold was detected in the hospital’s operating rooms on Nov. 10, shortly after 6-month-old Elizabeth Hutt underwent her third heart operation. A class action lawsuit against the ...

A new study led by Imperial College London finds that drug-resistant mold is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people's lungs. Aspergillus fumigatus is an environmental mold ...

SEATTLE — As Seattle Children's hospital continues to battle mold in its operating rooms, many may wonder about the mold that caused the infections: Aspergillus. Here’s what you need to know.

One of the most significant setbacks to cannabis cultivators and imminent danger to consumers—microbial contamination, notably the presence of aspergillus—continues to wreak havoc on state-legal pot ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aspergillus spores, including the ones that can cause infections in humans, may already be in the air that you breathe. But no ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have identified a new way that common Aspergillus molds can induce asthma, by first attacking the protective tissue barrier deep in the lungs. In both mice ...