"Exposure to bat guano among cannabis growers appears to be a recent trend that can lead to histoplasmosis cases," ...

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Two men from New York died from pneumonia they contracted from bat feces — after they used the excrement as fertilizer to ...

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) — a common fungal infection that claims 340,000 lives every year worldwide, can turn ...

Valley fever, also known by its clinical name coccidioidomycosis, is a lung infection that is rarely fatal and typically goes ...

Two men from Rochester, NY died from a fungal lung infection linked to using bat guano as fertilizer for growing cannabis.

Additionally, pneumonia can also be caused by fungal infections and aspiration (inhaling something, like food or saliva, into your lungs). Bronchitis is a condition that mostly affects the upper ...

Two men from Rochester, New York, who grew their own cannabis died from pneumonia after being exposed to a harmful fungus in bat poop they'd used as fertilizer.

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The two Rochester men experienced weight loss and difficulty breathing before going to the hospital, doctors said.

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 ...