Man Hospitalized After Sniffing Dirty Socks Made Fungus Grow in His Lungs

Man Hospitalized After Sniffing Dirty Socks Made Fungus Grow in His Lungs

It started with a pesky cough that just wouldn’t go away. It ended with a man in China being hospitalized with a fungal infection—because he’d been regularly sniffing his own dirty socks. Yes, this is real life. The unnamed man, described in local media as a “regular office worker” from Chongqing, was admitted to the Southwest Hospital of the Army Medical University after his relentless cough started interfering with his sleep. He’d already trie…