Miah Joy of Sault Ste. Marie contracted blastomycosis, which can be found in moist soil and rotting wood; Algoma Public Health says case levels not higher than normal this year
SAULT STE. MARIE — Family members and friends are mourning the death of Miah Joy of Sault Ste. Marie, an 18-year-old woman who died of blastomycosis at Sudbury’s Health Sciences North ICU on Aug. 1.
She needed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as ECMO, which involves blood being pumped outside the body to a heart-lung machine that removes carbon dioxide and sends oxygen-filled blood back to tissues in the body. The disease can also strike pets, but it is not transmissible between humans or from animals to humans.
A blastomycosis season in northern Ontario, Tuinema said, typically runs from early spring to late fall.
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