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.

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 ...

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

The second day of an inquest into the deaths of five people during a blastomycosis outbreak in Constance Lake First Nation in ...

Nearly 100 people have likely contracted blastomycosis in an outbreak at the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan, according to numerous reports and a press release from Public Health Delta & ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESCANABA — As sudden, excruciating pain ripped through Eric Phillips' chest in mid-February, he was sure he was having a heart attack. The paramedics believed he was, too. But when the 46-year-old ...

At least one person has died and nearly 100 people have become sick in a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill in Michigan, health authorities said, prompting the plant to temporarily close as local ...

A contractor who worked at a paper mill in Escanaba, Michigan, died due to blastomycosis, a fungal infection. And the death is part of a larger outbreak, public health officials are warning. As of ...

DETROIT – A contracted employee to a paper mill in Michigan has died from blastomycosis, the fungal infection whose rare outbreak has affected nearly 100 employees at the mill, local health officials ...