Two men in Rochester, USA, tragically died from a rare lung infection called histoplasmosis after using bat guano, or bat droppings, as fertilizer for their cannabis plants. They had purchased the guano online and also used droppings from their attic,

One of the men, aged 59, had purchased bat guano online as a fertilizer, while the other, 64, planned to use guano he had found in a bat-infested attic in his home. They both suffered from symptoms including fever, chronic cough, significant weight loss, blood poisoning, and eventually, respiratory failure.

"Exposure to bat guano among cannabis growers appears to be a recent trend that can lead to histoplasmosis cases," researchers said.

Two men from Rochester, New York died from a type of pneumonia after being exposed to a harmful fungus living in bat poop used to grow cannabis.

The men, aged 59 and 64, had symptoms including chronic cough, fever, blood poisoning and respiratory failure Two men from New York have died after using bat poop as a fertilizer to grow cannabis. According to Live Science,

Two men have died of a rare fungal lung infection after they used bat poop as fertiliser for cannabis in New York city. The men, aged 59 and 64, shared a love of "Mary Jane" and cultivated their own cannabis plants for personal use,

In an unusual case from New York, two men who were planning to use bat poop as fertilizer to grow cannabis plants at their home died after contracting a rare fungal lung infection from it. According to a report of their cases,