Histoplasmosis begins as a lung infection caused by inhaling spores of the Histoplasma fungus (typically the species Histoplasma capsulatum). These exposures don’t usually make people sick ...

Histoplasmosis is a lung infection caused by inhaling spores of the Histoplasma fungus. It is also known as the “cave disease.” What Happened: The first man (59), bought his guano online to ...

The study serves as a stark warning to marijuana growers about the potential dangers of using bat guano. The researchers ...

According to the Open Forum Infectious Diseases Journal, the men, a 64-year-old and 59-year-old from Rochester, NY, were pronounced dead after being diagnosed with histoplasmosis infections ...

The fertilization process exposed the men to the fungus, leading to histoplasmosis, a severe lung infection. According to the journal article, symptoms included: Chronic cough Fever Blood ...

Most of the systemic fungal infections, like histoplasmosis and blastomycosis, are not contagious between dogs. Some canine fungal infections are more prevalent in specific geographic locations.

Two men in Rochester, USA, tragically died from a rare lung infection called histoplasmosis after using bat guano, or bat droppings, as fertilizer for their cannabis plants. They had purchased the ...

Doctors eventually determined he too was suffering from a histoplasmosis infection, a type of pneumonia caused by breathing in spores of histoplasmosis capsulatum. He told doctors there was “a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Histoplasma is a fungus found in soil, bird and bat droppings in areas in the U.S. that causes lung infections. Health officials said early ...

Doctors initially suspected carcinoma after scans showed a mass on his larynx — but a biopsy sample ultimately tested positive for a histoplasmosis infection. The other man, who was 64 years old ...