TMVII spreads through direct skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, and can cause severe and persistent rashes.

Sexually transmitted ringworm, known as trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, or TMVII, is a fungus that infects the skin ...

A sexually transmitted ringworm is spreading in one US state - It can take months to treat the fungal infections, which were first reported in the U.S. in 2024 ...

The fungal infection was first detected in Minnesota last July.

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Minnesota is in the midst of what state health officials call the nation's "largest known outbreak" of TMVII, a sexually transmitted fungal skin infection that can cause severe ringworm.

More than 2.5 million cases of sexually transmitted infections were reported in 2021, jumping by 7% in one year, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The US ...

Health officials in Minnesota say the state is seeing an outbreak of a new, sexually transmitted fungal skin infection.

ATLANTA — In May, the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an increase in certain sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhea, and syphilis, while infections of ...

The states, all led by Democrats, claim the cuts were intended as retribution and will harm efforts to control H.I.V. and ...

Sexually transmitted infections are becoming more common in older adults. Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in people ages 55 and up more than doubled in the U.S. over the 10-year period from ...