Blastomycosis — Worldwide/Unknown
In the largest outbreak ever reported in the USA of blastomycosis, a fungal infection with flulike symptoms, 55 people in central Wisconsin became sick in 2010.
The fungus that causes blastomycosis is commonly found in soil, but exactly what triggered the spike in cases in Marathon County remains a mystery, according to a new report from the CDC and Wisconsin health officials. Unlike a blastomycosis outbreak in a neighboring Wisconsin county in 2006, in which a pile of waste in a large yard
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