Last February, 162 workers at Billerud Paper in Michigan were sickened with blastomycosis, an infection caught by inhaling spores from the fungus Blastomyces. Of those, 18 workers were ...

Blasto Onyango, a local archaeological legend who helped uncover the Turkana Boy, the most complete early hominin skeleton ever discovered, said that his impressive find took "four or five years ...

The Centers For Disease Control has not been able to find the exact source of a massive outbreak of Blastomycosis at a paper mill in Escanaba. The fungal infection that tends to strike the lungs made ...

ESCANABA — More information has been released about a fungal outbreak linked to Billerud’s Escanaba paper mill in 2022 and 2023 that infected at least 162 people and resulted in one death.

Competing Interests: The author has been involved in clinical trials of albendazole and nitazoxanide, and has received research funding for these trials from SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals and ...