DOCTORS were shocked to discover a man’s yellowing nails were a sign of a tumour squishing his lungs and heart. The 73-year-old suffered from breathlessness, discoloured nails, and leg ...

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

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

Fungal infection, also known as a mycosis, refers to the invasion of a host's tissue by specific types of fungi. Mycoses often start in the lungs following inhalation of fungal spores or on the ...

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

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

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.

Two men in Rochester, USA, tragically died from a rare lung infection called histoplasmosis after using bat guano, or bat ...

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 ...