Two Men Hospitalized for Respiratory Failure
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Diagnostic dilemma: Growing weed with bat poop left 2 men with deadly infections
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A 59-year-old man (patient one) and a 64-year old man in Rochester , New York were diagnosed with a rare fungal lung infection called histoplasmosis.
Both patients were already using or planning to use bat poop as fertilizer to grow cannabis for personal use.
Patients were prescribed antifungal drugs to combat their infections but both died.
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