The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) has issued an alert regarding a rise in cases of histoplasmosis, a fungal infection.
The TDH issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Advisory to alert clinicians and laboratories to an increase in pulmonary and disseminated histoplasmosis cases in Williamson and Maury Counties and to request reporting of cases to TDH.
TDH was recently alerted to an increase in acute and severe histoplasmosis cases…