Friends grew cannabis on bat feces and died from inhaling the superfood

They contracted histoplasmosis by inhaling the spores of a harmful fungus.

Two men who used bat droppings to grow cannabis have died from a rare fungal lung infection caused by their fertilizer.

The Daily Star writes about it.

A New York couple who grew their own plants for personal use contracted histoplasmosis after inhaling spores of the harmful fungus with plant fertilizer, otherwise known as guano. One of the men, who was 59, bought guano online to use as fertilizer for his drug gardening. Another, a 64-year-old man, intended to use guano from his attic to feed cannabis plants, which he found after a significant bat problem.

The men developed a range of symptoms as a result of the infections, including fever,…