More than 30 people have contracted the fungal infection histoplasmosis while spending time at Cafetal Angerona ruins in Artemisa municipality in late January. Authorities were first alerted to the outbreak some three weeks later after they were notified of nine hospitalisations among the group. The site contains caverns where bats roost; soil contaminated with bat guano is a common source of Histoplasma spores that produce the infection’s typical symptoms when inhaled. Read more
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