Brazil

Maria worked unpaid for three generations of the same Brazilian family, from 1971 until investigators freed her this month. The settlement came to 50,000 reais, Brazil's currency, which works out to roughly three dollars for every week of the 55 years she spent there.

On Hacker News, two Brazilian commenters split hard on how it happened: one called arrangements like hers common well into the 1980s; a self-described Brazilian doctor said actual slavery like this was something he'd never personally encountered.

Unlike other dimorphic fungi, this one spreads in its yeast form, persisting on stainless steel for 10 weeks against Candida's 48 hours. A UK family developed symptoms three years after leaving Brazil.

A CDC adviser's word "ginormous" set the thread arguing over scale, until a vet's partner in Porto Alegre reported new cases weekly and 100% lethality in untreated strays.