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MILWAUKEE (WKOW) -- Researchers found a rare -- and dangerous -- fungus in the rural Milwaukee suburbs.
It's called blastomycosis. The discovery was first reported by the Wisconsin Medical Journal.
The fungus was discovered by a research team from the Center for Urban Population Health, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and several other institutions.
The team studied 68 cases of the illness from urban southeastern Wisconsin from 2002 to 2007 and found that residents of this region may acquire blastomycosis there, sometimes without a specific outdoor exposure source, according to the WMJ.
WMJ is now telling doctors that Blastomycosis should be considered as a diagnosis when a patient comes to a health care provider with consistent symptoms, even if the patient does not report a history of traveling to northern Wisconsin.
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