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Deadly Infections Linked to Joplin Tornado Featured on The Weather Channel [Video]

On August 5, I was interviewed live by the Weather Channel about the 13 fungal infections caused by the 2011 Joplin tornado that I wrote about a few weeks ago. Here's that interview.

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The last few weeks have been action-packed for me, with an interstate move, a visit to the New Mexico Mycological Society's Annual Mushroom Foray, and a live appearance on the Weather Channel's morning show, AMHQ on August 5 all taking away from blogging time. The Weather Channel interviewed me for about 2 minutes about the blog post I wrote a few weeks ago on the Joplin tornado spreading a rare fungal infection to 13 of the victims. It took a while to get the clip uploaded to youtube, but here it is!