Doctors have reported two rare and fatal cases of histoplasmosis, a fungal disease linked to bat guano used as fertilizer for ...

The men, based in Rochester, New York, died after contracting a rare fungal infection in their lungs from the bat guano they were intending to use as a fertilizer to grow marijuana, according to a ...

The men, aged 59 and 64, had symptoms including chronic cough, fever, blood poisoning and respiratory failure Two men from ...

The spores they inhaled were in fecal matter they had used or planned to use to fertilize homegrown cannabis plants, according to the report. “Exposure to bat guano among cannabis growers ...

The pair, who were not named, had been using the droppings to fertilize cannabis plants. It was not immediately clear when they died. “Exposure to bat guano among cannabis growers appears to be ...

Field workers spread locally-sourced bat guano fertilizer on biodynamically grown marijuana plants ... [+] at the SPARC cannabis farm in Glen Ellen, Calif. on Friday, July 14, 2017. Erich Pearson ...