TMVII is an emerging, fungal-based STI most prevalent among men who have sex with men. The Minnesota Department of Health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The fungal infection was first detected in Minnesota last July.

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

Minnesota is in the midst of what state health officials call the nation's "largest known outbreak" of TMVII, a sexually ...

A rare sexually transmitted fungus has been in the news recently after it was reported for the first time in the U.S. The first U.S. case of Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII, or TMVII for short, ...

NEW YORK -- A sexually transmitted form of ringworm recently made its way into the United States. So far, there has only been one reported case -- a patient in New York City. Trichophyton ...

You probably don’t need one more thing to worry about, but a rare, ringworm-like fungus that can be sexually transmitted has been spotted in the US. A 30-something New York City man who’d recently ...

Minnesota health officials say the state is currently dealing with the United States' "largest known outbreak" of a sexually transmitted fungus that can cause ringworm.