How to Use blastomycosis in a Sentence
blastomycosis
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For others, symptoms of blastomycosis often mirror a cold or flu — cough, fever, body aches, night sweats.
—Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2023
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So why hasn't a blastomycosis outbreak like this happened before?
—Freep.com, 23 Apr. 2023
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Some other fungal diseases of humans are also on the move, such as histoplasmosis and blastomycosis.
—Mark Takahashi, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
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Testing then revealed that the cases were not pneumonia but a fungal infection called blastomycosis.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
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Symptoms of blastomycosis usually appear between three weeks and three months after a person has breathed in the fungal spores, but not everyone who is exposed will get sick.
—Fox News, 24 Sep. 2019
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Blastomyces causes a nasty disease, blastomycosis, which causes lesions to form in the skin, internal organs and nervous system.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
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People can get blastomycosis after breathing in the microscopic fungal spores from the air, the CDC says.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
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Most notable, over the past year or so, the family told her, three dogs at the development, including one belonging to the boy’s grandparents, had been infected with blastomycosis.
—Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
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In some people, especially those with weakened immune systems, blastomycosis can become serious.
—Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2023
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And other researchers have identified cases of a novel blastomycosis in Saskatchewan and Alberta, pushing the map of where that infection occurs further north and west.
—Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
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So, as the blastomycosis outbreak emerged, the community activated.
—Freep.com, 23 Apr. 2023
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That was when additional testing by medical personnel discovered the blastomycosis.
—Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
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At least one person has died, and 96 others have been sickened, in an outbreak of blastomycosis at a northwest Michigan paper mill, local health authorities confirmed Friday.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
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Though mostly asymptomatic, pneumonia is often how blastomycosis manifests.
—Murat Can Kalem, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2019
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Although the number of blastomycosis cases has increased since the previous update, that doesn’t necessarily mean exposures are ongoing, the county health departments said Friday.
—Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 1 May 2023
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The health department began investigating an outbreak at the mill last month after sick employees, ailing from pneumonialike symptoms, tested positive for a fungal infection called blastomycosis.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2023
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