State public health officials blamed that high rate of infection to lapses in safety precautions at the work site. They recommend that construction workers take common sense precautions in affected areas, including soaking dirt while digging, minimizing hand-digging in favor of heavy equipment with enclosed, air conditioned, HEPA-filtered cabs, and ensuring workers have respirator masks.

Agricultural communities are particularly hard hit by the fungal infection, which is contracted by breathing in spores when dust rises into the air because of weather conditions or activities such as farm work or construction.

(Español) Decenas de millones de contribuyentes pagarán significativamente más, “mientras este plan republicano entre en vigor, o un futuro Congreso extienda las exenciones impositivas, haciendo que el agujero del déficit que están creando sea más profundo”: Schumer.