The widespread presence of Aspergillus flavus and parasiticus fungi in tropical wheat stores was increasing the viral loads of the HIV-positive; Geomyces destructans, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome and has killed 6 million North American bats since 2006, was found on a British bat; Legionnaires’ disease struck the elderly in Ohio, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus continued to spread across America, an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis caused health officials to discourage children with diarrhea in Iowa from swimming, and novel human astroviruses were seen in diarrheal children in Nanjing. The English Asian elephant Nian Hi Way died of herpes, and…