Children being treated for cancer are at risk for a deadly, air-borne fungus known as aspergillus.
People come in contact with aspergillus every day, but children with suppressed immune systems are at serious risk. Eighty-five percent of the patients infected with aspergillus die. Voiceover For more information on St. Jude, visit us on the world wide web at St. Jude dot org. For the St. Jude Medical Minute, I m Susan Howe.