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 histo-specific calcification in her lungs from a completely different issue years later.
-Tucek On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 13:52, Mark Minton <mmin...@caver.net> wrote: > 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. > > > > Mark Minton > > > > *From:* Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] *On > Behalf Of *jerryat...@aol.com > *Sent:* Saturday, November 28, 2020 11:34 AM > *To:* texascavers@texascavers.com; Southwestern Cavers of the National > Speleological Society > *Subject:* [Texascavers] Mexico histo caves article : > > > 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. > > Sent from my iPhone > > Jerry Atkinson > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > -- *Go find out!* -Heather Tuček TSA Membership Chair NSS 59660 (512) 773-1348 members...@cavetexas.org
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