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FUNGUS TURNED CHEF'S LUNGS INTO SWISS CHEESE!
National Enquirer
|February 26, 2024
Untreatable killer spores marching across America
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A MICHIGAN chef has died after a killer fungus crept through his body for months and turned his lungs into Swiss cheese - and medical experts warn the mushrooming menace is coming for more unsuspecting victims!
lan Pritchard, 29, had been in the hospital since before Thanksgiving, when he first displayed flu-like symptoms - and things only got worse as the mystery infection "ate huge holes in his lungs" and made his life agony.
The Tex-Mex chef was eventually diagnosed with blastomycosis.
This story is from the February 26, 2024 edition of National Enquirer.
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