Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Medical experts are warning doctors and the public of a highly contagious rare fungal strain after a sexually transmitted ringworm ...

Health officials are warning about a new case of ringworm likely spread through sex that has been reported in New York City, the first such case in the U.S. The infection, a rare fungus called ...

Jamie Samnang says she contracted ringworm from gym equipment. An avid gym goer thought she had a bad mosquito bite — until it began spreading all over her body, a bad case of the fungal infection ...

Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII is a type of ringworm that can look similar to eczema Getty A first case of a highly contagious and rare sexually transmitted fungal infection has been found in ...

NEW YORK - A new and "highly contagious" form of ringworm likely spread through sex has been reported in the U.S. for the first time, health officials warned. The rare fungus, called trichophyton ...

With the arrival of a new, highly contagious fungal infection in NYC, health experts are sharing what you need to know to keep yourself safe. An unidentified NYC man in his 30s was diagnosed with the ...

Chris Olsen is clearing the air about his ringworm diagnosis. The TikToker detailed how he recently got the contagious fungal disease on his face, clarifying that ringworm "is not actually a worm" but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kennedy News and Media Jamie Samnang says she contracted ringworm from gym equipment. An avid gym goer thought she had a bad ...

A physician at New York City-based NYU Langone Health found the first sexually transmitted ringworm infection in the U.S., NBC News reported June 5. The case, published June 5 in JAMA Dermatology by ...

An avid gym goer thought she had a bad mosquito bite — until it began spreading all over her body, a bad case of the fungal infection ringworm. Jamie Samnang, 41, said she’d just finished a workout at ...