DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

It has been suggested that there are over 60 other diseases that birds and their droppings can carry ... action it could help contain the bird flu outbreak a good deal. Examples of transmissible ...

using bat guano or bird droppings as fertilizer may contribute to the infection with Histoplasma capsulatum." Only around 1 percent of people exposed to the fungus actually develop histoplasmosis ...

I have written many commentaries on the unsanitary situation that comes from having so many Canadians on the Qualla Boundary. Of course, I am talking about Canadian geese.

Histoplasmosis is a type of pneumonia caused by breathing in spores of H. capsulatum, a fungus found in soil and bird and bat droppings. In the lungs, H. capsulatum spores transform into mature ...

Histoplasmosis is often misdiagnosed or ... Bats are one of the few species infected with the fungus, but bird droppings could also contribute to infection. They warned that, given recent ...