Past Contest Entries

Outbreak Linked to Yard Waste Site

Blastomyosis is a rare potentially fatal fungal infection. A large outbreak – one of the country’s largest – occurred in fall 2005/winter 2006 in Merrill, Wis. Little is known about the fungus that caused it; researchers know little more.

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Place:

No Award

Year:

  • 2007

Category:

  • Small Newspapers (under 90,000 circ.)

Affiliation:

Wausau Daily Herald

Reporter:

Amy Olson

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