A contract worker at the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan, has died from an ongoing fungal outbreak that may have infected nearly 100 employees with blastomycosis, according to a press ...

Four years ago, people in Constance Lake First Nation were showing symptoms of an illness that mimicked pneumonia, but it wasn’t that lung condition. Five people eventually died over several weeks ...

Authorities are still trying to determine how a recent fatal outbreak of a rare fungal disease at a paper mill in the Upper Peninsula happened. "It's the largest known blastomycosis outbreak in U.S.

A coroner’s jury has heard testimony that members of Constance Lake First Nation continue to live under the threat of a ...

Because different benign pulmonary conditions, including blastomycosis, can be indistinguishable on chest x-ray or chest CT scan from pulmonary malignancies, evaluation of patients with a suspicious ...

Presiding coroner Dr. Michael Wilson opens an inquest in Constance Lake First Nation in northern Ontario to examine the ...

The CDC Friday changed its guidance, suggesting people should stay home when sick with any respiratory virus but no long recommended a 5-day isolation period for COVID-19. A rare fungal infection ...

Ketoconazole (KTZ) has largely replaced amphotericin B as first-line therapy for blastomycosis. However, KTZ penetrates poorly into the central nervous system (CNS), and therapeutic failure may be ...

Blastomycosis is a rare infectious condition caused by a fungus known as Blastomyces dermatitidis. It manifests as a lung infection that can be asymptomatic or cause life-threatening problems such as ...

(WLUK) -- Nine more people over the past two weeks came down with blastomycosis connected to an outbreak in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Public Health Delta & Menominee Counties says 118 cases have ...

This section presents medications that are known to potentially lead to 'Blastomycosis' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. Please be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Blastomycosis is a rare fungal disease caused by breathing in a fungus called Blastomyces. The estimated ...