NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is warning about a rise in cases involving a fungus in the Midstate. TDH is warning clinicians and laboratories of an increase in ...

A study suggests histoplasma is now found in nearly every state, but many doctors aren't looking out for it. Reading time 2 minutes An illness-causing fungus known as histoplasma is in the soil of ...

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Some fungi that can cause serious lung infections have spread to many parts of the United States. A Science News story on the expanded range of Histoplasma, Coccidioides and Blastomyces fungi hit a ...

Three types of fungi that cause serious lung infections and were once thought to be confined to certain regions of the United States are now widespread. Medicare records from 2007 through 2016 show ...

The Tennessee Department of Health has issued a health advisory after an increase in histoplasmosis cases in Williamson and Maury counties. Histoplasmosis is a lung infection, or pneumonia, caused by ...

The invisible war against infectious diseases has entered a new and terrifying phase as drug-resistant fungi emerge as the next potential global health crisis, threatening to overwhelm healthcare ...

A potentially deadly fungus has been spreading throughout Tennessee, health officials have warned. Over 35 cases of histoplasmosis, a lung infection caused by exposure to the fungus Histoplasma ...

Of the roughly 150,000 recognized fungal species, and perhaps the several million not yet identified, few cause disease in humans, 1 fewer do so in persons not overtly immunosuppressed, and only a ...

Blastomycosis and histoplasmosis are both fungal infections that a person can acquire by breathing in spores from the air. However, the two conditions have different treatment pathways. The fungus ...

Histoplasmosis is a respiratory infection caused by the Histoplasma capsulatum fungus. After assessing medical and travel history and symptoms, then performing a physical examination, a doctor can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Outbreak of a rare fungal disease in Tennessee leaves one dead and dozens sick A rare fungal disease has left one person dead and ...