The study serves as a stark warning to marijuana growers about the potential dangers of using bat guano. The researchers ...
Two New York men who used bat poop to fertilize their marijuana plants have died from a rare fungal infection caused by inhaling spores found in bat droppings. The avid cannabis growers, aged 59 ...
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 ...
a form of pneumonia that is caused by breathing in spores of the fungus histoplasma capsulatum, which is often found in bat guano. Their cases were unrelated, the researchers said. The spores they ...
According to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Disease, the Rochester residents died from pneumonia after the bat waste, known as guano, released a harmful fungus called Histoplasma ...
released a harmful fungus called Histoplasma capsulatum that caused fatal lung infections. Researchers said one of the men, a 59-year-old, had purchased the bat guano from an online store while ...