It had a name one I was later to forget.
It was called Massospora circadiana this was a original a fungal pathogen that infected a species of beetle known as cicada.
I was doing my job searching the jungles of the Amazon for unusual specimens of trees as may be a possible way to save future trees from disease.
We finished for the day so I went back to our camp to catalogue our findings and to have a bit of rest and tuck into much needed food and have a shower to wash away the sweat from toiling in the amazon.
I was casually eating my beans and rice when I felt a tiny bit on my leg which felt like someone had pricked me with a sharp needle.
I looked down to see the creature that inflected this temporary pain and saw it was a hybrid of a Magicicada Tredecassinia species of beetle normally lives on Africa; Australia; Asia so this one that just bite me must be a new species as it was so unknown to the amazon.
I was just about to find a net to place it in when it spread it's micro sliver-like wings and disappeared.
Feeling a bit tired I decided to call it a day and get into my sleeping bag for some much welcomed shut eye.
As I lay in my sleeping bag awaiting for the sandman to dust me some dreams I felt a little off colour and my stomach was feeling a bit unsettled ,at first I just put it down to jungle belly.
Something was moving around in my stomach is could see brown tiny speck s all over my abdoman.
My body was becoming inflected ;I could feel rear segments of my abdomen falling off when I managed in my weakened state to unzip my sleeping bag and crawl out like a worm .
I shaked my sleeping bag out and on the ground of the tent were white chalky mass of a fungus:which before my stunned eyes I see it was producing spores.
I felt the need to walk around dragging my aabdomen; I try to scream out on pain but my voice is mute.
Then it stops and I drop to the floor.
I awoke on a hospital bed and my wife and family by my side.
I was told by the consulant that I was extremely lucky that I was found by one of my fellow research students whom recognised I was in a state of anaphaylactic shock due to my block airways so he rised my legs into a comfortable position to keep my blood flowing to my vital organs.
After some time I was rushed to nearest hospital with a helipad and given a antidote stronger than a epipen.
A month later I was back in my country cottage just thinking about how lucky I was.
Me and my wife had some me time I managed to fertilize one of my wife eggs making her pregnant.
Six weeks later we both wenter along to get a scan to tell us if we were expecting a boy or a girl.
This is where things got a bit odd as when the nurse did the scan she let out almighty scream and went running to get the doctor.
The doctor took each of us into an examination room and asked us to strip off.
We both did so willingly :he took a look at our private research and said we both need to come to his office straight away.
We both seat down on very uncomfortable chairs and then he told us.
"I afraid to tell you but you are both sterile and the thing inside is not a baby but what looks like millions of spores of some sort of fungus;we must inform you it be best if you abort these creatures "
So this is how I became aware of how just a simple fungus and the damage it affict on your life.
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