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How your compost heap can hide a lethal superfungus that destroys lungs and kills 85 per cent of those infected. Doctors warn of growing threat as sufferer Lisa says: 'My life was stripped away.' Special report by JOHN NAISH

How your compost heap can hide a lethal superfungus that destroys lungs and kills 85 per cent of those infected. Doctors warn of growing threat as sufferer Lisa says: 'My life was stripped away.' Special report by JOHN NAISH

Lisa McNeil, 54, a married mother of two from Blackpool, knows all too well the gruelling rigours of living with a chronic fungal infection.

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