100PercentFedUp.com Billerud, a Swedish company that runs a paper mill in Michigan’s upper peninsula in the city of Escanaba, announced late Thursday that it intended to close the plant for three weeks following a fungal infection outbreak.
The closure comes about a month after the outbreak started and, according to the company, will allow for deep cleaning.
Billerud said the temporary mill closure was a ‘precautionary measure’, yet according to the Daily Mail, workers complained that Blastomycosis, a fungal infection, was first diagnosed in February. They also noted that the source of the problem still needed to be identified. Initially, Billerud told their employees to wear face masks to keep infection at bay after workers tested positive, showing they were suffering from a blastomycosis outbreak. The first positive cases were discovered in early March.
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