Fungi feed... and weapons.
In this time of autumn in our forests and mountains we can see mushrooms, mushrooms and mushrooms, some edibles and others not, but all spectacular.
Fungi are consumed in many parts of the world and depending on culture they are collected and eaten. Unfortunately, a very different use can be made: The director-general of the Pasteur Institute in Lille has pointed out that there are many biological weapons based on fungi, which have been used and used in wars.
It is suspected that the United States and the USSR used them as experiments in the Vietnam War, in which tens of thousands of people died. As for the deposits in Iraq, the Western military forces discovered in 1990 some 22,000 litres of aflatoxins in the Arab country after the invasion. This toxin, produced by the fungi of the genus Aspergillus, is located in the Scud missiles, which contaminate crops and animals on the grounds affected by the missile, and through them reaches the human being.
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