Por: The Hill Health April 17, 2023
A Michigan mill worker has died and at least a dozen other people have been hospitalized due to an outbreak of a rare fungal infection, according to local health officials. say 21 confirmed and 76 probable cases of blastomycosis have been identified in connection with the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan. The fungus, which can thrive in decaying wood, is not infectious person-to-person, but people who inhale spores can get infected.... + full article
CBS News USA Politics April 15, 2023
At least one person has died, and 96 others have been sickened, in an outbreak of blastomycosis at a northwest Michigan paper mill, local health authorities confirmed Friday. Federal investigators are preparing to step up their probe into this unprecedented number of typically... + más
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End of an era: Jay’s last paper mill shutters for good | Portland Press Herald
Forbes USA Business March 22, 2023
Topline A warning this week by at the CDC, about the spread of the potentially lethal fungus across the U.S., highlights the threat of other potentially dangerous fungal pathogens you’ve probably never heard of, but are an unrecognized and emerging global health threat. This... + más
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Portland Press Herald USA Nation March 10, 2023
The truck gate at Pixelle Androscoggin Mill in Jay is padlocked Thursday, a day after the mill’s last day of operations. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal JAY — An era came to an end Wednesday when the last paper mill in Jay ceased making paper. From the time construction began on its... + más
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CNBC USA Health February 11, 2023
Fungal infections are becoming more common in the United States, but unlike illnesses caused by bacteria or viruses, there's no vaccine to protect against a fungal threat.While scientists aren't worried that a fungal infection like the one seen in will wipe out... + más
Potentially deadly fungal infections climb during COVID pandemic, WHO says | New York Post
‘The Last of Us’ in real life? Rising temperatures may spread fungal infections, research says | MarketWatch
MarketWatch USA Business February 06, 2023
Of course, this is a work of fiction based on the hit PlayStation videogame of the same name. (There’s also a similar plot in the bestselling 2014 novel “The Girl with All the Gifts,” which was adapted into a 2016 movie.) And many scientists on the HBO show note that the... + más
W.H.O. Lists Top Fungal Health Threats | The New York Times
New York Post USA Life October 28, 2022
The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned that reported invasive fungal infections increased significantly among hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a release alongside its recently released list of priority fungal pathogens, the U.N. health agency... + más
'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US | CNN
The New York Times USA Health October 27, 2022
The World Health Organization has released of fungi that threaten human health in its most ambitious effort to draw attention to a constellation of pathogens that are largely overlooked, even as they have become increasingly widespread, resistant to treatment and deadly.The... + más
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