Blastomycosis in New Brunswick, Canada

[Lisa]

An article in the Times and Transcript mentions Blastomycosis in New Brunswick:

Get out and enjoy outdoor N.B.
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/lifetimes/article/310466

Aerosol Organisms

There are actually very few infectious organisms we are apt to pick up in outdoor New Brunswick by inhaling them (breathing them in). We get the vast majority of our aerosol infectious organisms, such as influenza, from our human kin. When we stop to realize the human sneeze can eject droplets containing infectious organisms at 100 mph, it's easy to understand why our mother always was repeating "cover your mouth."

The fungus blastomycosis is one fungal agent we can inhale outdoors, however, this appears to be isolated to the extreme north of the province and the organism fortunately does not do well in our New Brunswick climate.