The EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011 caused a lot of damage, but nobody could have predicted that it would have ...

An EF-5 tornado touched down in Joplin in 2011, infecting a number of residents with a deadly fungus that put 12 people in ...

The family refused an autopsy. Secondary cutaneous zygomycosis is rare and results from hematogenous dissemination from a preexisting (usually noncutaneous) source. It presents as nodular ...

Caught in the Storm, has brought attention back to the fateful event through the accounts of people who lived through the ...

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But what followed was even more terrifying. In the process of his treatment, Steven contracted a rare, flesh-eating fungus known as zygomycosis or mucormycosis. According to experts, while it is ...

Steven Weersing survived both the Joplin tornado and the potentially fatal fungus that spread among survivors — now he's ...

On May 22, 2011, the Joplin tornado struck with catastrophic force, claiming 158 lives and leaving countless others injured. Among the survivors was a then-16-year-old Steven Weersing, who was driving ...

But conquering the tornado was only half the battle. More than a dozen people who survived the historic twister were infected with zygomycosis, which causes body tissue to necrotize or turn black ...