I ended up with a cat that got histo, presumably from whatever cave clothes
I brought in the house. I've never gotten it, but it's a miracle she didn't
die, since we never did figure out why she was sick, even after 6 months of
weekly vet visits. We ended up finding out from an xray showing
Some of Mexico’s caves harbor an invisible enemy: histoplasmosis
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexicolife/some-of-mexicos-caves-harbor-an-invisible-enemy-histoplasmosis/
Jerry Atkinson.
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Interesting that you can supposedly get histo simply from digging in dirt that
had been exposed to bat guano years in the past. I had never heard that before.
That makes it a lot more insidious. Fortunately, most cavers from the Southwest
are probably mostly immune from years of exposure.
