{"id":48766,"date":"2013-11-08T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=48766"},"modified":"2013-11-08T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:41:42","slug":"strange-lung-ailment-revealed-a-giant-ball-of-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=48766","title":{"rendered":"Strange Lung Ailment Revealed: A Giant Ball of Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aspergilloma-lung-fungus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48767\" alt=\"aspergilloma-lung-fungus\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aspergilloma-lung-fungus.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aspergilloma-lung-fungus.jpg 575w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aspergilloma-lung-fungus-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aspergilloma-lung-fungus-485x300.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a>A man who suffered from a bloody cough that persisted for more than a year was surprised to find that the cause was a giant ball of fungus growing in his lung, according to a recent report of his case.<\/p>\n<p>The man, a farmworker in Italy, may have contracted a fungal infection, called aspergilloma, while working in the fields. For a year, he struggled with not only the cough but also fever and weight loss. His symptoms hadn&#8217;t improved despite several courses of antibiotics, according to the report published Oct. 24 in the journal\u00a0BMJ Case Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Aspergilloma, a\u00a0fungal infection\u00a0that mainly infects the lungs, is relatively uncommon, and this particular clump of fungus was extremely large, at nearly 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who suffered from a bloody cough that persisted for more than a year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}