The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said this week the state is experiencing the country’s “largest known outbreak” of an emerging sexually transmitted fungus that can cause ringworm. The genital ...

Health officials in Minnesota say the state is seeing an outbreak of a new, sexually transmitted fungal skin infection. The infection is caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMVII), a ...

The CDC is urging people with unexpected rashes to see a doctor, though they don’t believe "there's a great risk" of contracting monkeypox Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, ...

During the 2022 outbreak of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), transmission of the mpox virus (MPXV) through sexual contact occurred predominantly among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with ...

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

With the World Health Organization declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern on Saturday, the United States falls into a category where human-to-human transmission is ...

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