Two men in New York state have died of a rare fungal lung infection that they caught from bat poop — specifically, poop they were using or planned to use as fertilizer to grow cannabis.

Two men from New York died from pneumonia they contracted from bat feces — after they used the excrement as fertilizer to grow marijuana, a new study found. The unidentified men from Rochester ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Gray News) - Two men from New York have died after using bat feces as a fertilizer to grow cannabis. According to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Disease, the Rochester ...

Two men from upstate New York have died from a type of pneumonia after using bat poop to grow cannabis. The men, who were based in Rochester, developed fatal cases of histoplasmosis: a lung ...

Two New York marijuana growers died after becoming infected with a fungus commonly found in bat poop, doctors said. Crystalweed Cannabis via Unsplash Two marijuana growers in Rochester ...

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