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Mysterious illness sickens dozens in Tennessee
NBC News· 2026-03-15 23:49
In the rapidly growing suburbs around Nashville, Tennessee, an unlikely danger has been unearthed. >> When bulldozers come in and they turn over the soil, that germ gets lifted up from the soil, gets into the air, and then we breathe it in. >> That microscopic fungus causes an infection called hystopplasmosis, hysto for short.At least 36 people have been sickened so far in Middle Tennessee. And one family says for them it turned deadly. I was probably in shock the first month and then it's just been hitting ...