Health authorities have confirmed blastomycosis as the cause of death of two First Nation people in the Lake Constance area of NE Ontario. The infection is contracted by inhaling fungal spores ‘found in soil and rotting wood in certain parts of North America’. A dozen more cases in the community required hospitalisation for treatment of the infection which can produce pulmonary, cutaneous or disseminated disease. Read more
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