Histoplasmosis

President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from WHO, mostly due to the belief that the U.S. unfairly pays a significant proportion of WHO’s funding, especially relative to China.

Maps of histoplasmosis, blastomycosis and coccidiomycosis may underestimate the areas of endemicity for these infections because researchers have found diagnoses outside their historically defined regions in the United States.

A Salmonella enteriditis outbreak linked to eggs supplied by Milo’s Poultry Farms in Bonduel, Wisconsin, has resulted in 65 illnesses and 24 hospitalizations in nine states, according to the CDC.

Cases of histoplasmosis are more common in rural areas of the United States and places with less health care infrastructure, according to a new study.

Three species of soil fungi, known to cause lung infections, have been found in U.S. states outside of what was historically accounted for by the CDC in 1969, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Fungal pathogens that can cause various diseases will likely become more prevalent in the next 10 years thanks to climate change, according to a recent commentary.

Nearly 70% of adults in the United States have never heard of six major fungal diseases, according to results from a first-of-its-kind survey published in MMWR.