Tonya Snyder, a Mycology Specialist in the Vanderbilt Clinical Microbiology Lab for patient care examines samples to isolate and identify specimens for growth in Nashville, Tennessee on October 19, 2012. This Vanderbilt lab was the first to identify a fungus causing the fungal meningitis outbreak, which has infected 257 people to date in the United States and 20 have died. REUTERS/Harrison McClary (UNITED STATES)