Minnesota is currently experiencing what its health department calls the nation's largest known outbreak of TMVII, a fungal ...

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.

Unlike most fungi that cause ringworm, TMVII is spread through close sexual contact and is more likely to cause inflammatory rashes that can lead to permanent scarring.

The fungal infection was first detected in Minnesota last July.

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