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

Resumo Histoplasma capsulatum foi isolado do solo de Humboldt, pequena localidade à margem do rio Aripuanã, no Estado de Mato Grosso. De seis amostras de terra, colhidas em quintais onde aves, ...

A team of medical professionals and infectious disease researchers at the University of Rochester, in New York, has found ...

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

Bat faeces contain lots of nutrients that are good for plants. But, sometimes they can also have a fungus that can prove deadly for some people ...

Two men have died after fertilising cannabis plants with bat poo and contracting a deadly infection.It occurred when the two men, who were growing marijuana plants in Rochester, New York, used bat ...

They each developed a condition called histoplasmosis after breathing in spores of a harmful fungus known as Histoplasma capsulatum from bat poop, or guano. The first man, who was 59-years-old ...

The men from Rochester, New York, aged 59 and 64, succumbed to pneumonia after inhaling spores of a harmful fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, released by bat poop. The fertilization process exposed ...

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 ...

Doctors in New York shared two separate case studies of men who died after using bat poop, sometimes called guano, for a surprising purpose.

Two men in Rochester, New York, died from a rare fungal infection, histoplasmosis, after being exposed to spores of Histoplasma capsulatum found in bat guano they used to fertilize cannabis plants.