Heather, I suspect you have had histo. Most cavers in this area have been exposed enough. Many cases are mild. Repeated exposure increases your antibodies for histo and keeps you inoculated against it. I had an infectious disease doctor tell me to keep on caving to keep my immunity up.
Allan Smart phone, stupid autocorrect > On Nov 28, 2020, at 8:23 PM, Heather Tucek <trog...@cavechat.org> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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