03-06-2025
EXCLUSIVE 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.
For the past 13 years she's had to take highly toxic medication to keep the potentially lethal fungus at bay – including one drug so poisonous that no one can be in the room with her when she administers it.
