Blastomycosis Fungal Outbreak In Michigan Paper Mill: 1 Dead, 12 Hospitalized

This is one blast that you don’t want to have. Blastomycosis can result when you breathe in the spores of a fungus called Blastomyces. And a blastomycosis outbreak is what’s recently occurred at the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan, according to Public Health Delta and Menominee Counties (PHDM). March 3 was when the PHDM told Billerud about the first reported blastomycosis case….