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

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

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

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.

A HIGHLY contagious strain of fungal ringworm that spreads through sex could already be silently circulating in the UK, ...

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

What Is a Fungal Infection? A fungal infection, also called mycosis, is a skin disease caused by a fungus. There are millions of species of fungi. They live in the dirt, on plants, on household ...

Over time, the infection can spread.