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TIL that during the 2011 Joplin, Missouri Tornado, the 200MPH+ winds were able to rip topsoil from the ground and disperse the necrotizing Mucorales fungus. Five deaths and thirteen infections were attributed to necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis as a result, weeks after the tornado struck Joplin.

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