Histoplasmosis -- Canada
A Newfoundland woman is warning travellers to do their research before adventurous excursions abroad after she and several other Newfoundlanders became ill from a mysterious disease traced back to a cave she visited in Cuba. The illness was eventually identified as a respiratory infection called histoplasmosis, or "cave disease," caused by spores from bird or bat droppings in damp soil.
[She] of Paradise, NL, travelled to Cuba with her husband on 27 Apr [2019], but her fever-like symptoms
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6553660&promed&0
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