'A lot of people are afraid of poisonous mushrooms', says Dr Jassy Drakulic, a plant pathologist, 'but only a very small proportion of the thousands of species of fungi in the world can cause disease'.
Doctors initially attributed many of the deaths to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a diagnosis that forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden says was often mistakenly made at the time.
And when we went down to the pathology department and I looked under the microscope, at the pathologist, at this lesion we had removed, all the cells were dead.