**** Hi Smitty. Yes -- doctors in the midwest are very cavalier about
Histoplasmosis. It's commonplace in the lungs of most of us midwesterners, and
doesn't seem to cause a problem for most people. I suspect that's why the
pulmonologist (in Nashville) didn't take it too seriously. MA
> > pulmonary fibrosis Histoplasmosis and birds
>
> During a chest exam, a doctor looked at some scar tissue
> on my xray and asked if I was from the midwest.
> I told him that I grew up in Indiana.
> He went on to tell me that most people in the midwest,
> including his mother, had similar conditions and told me
> it was histoplasmosis. (I wrote down the name)
> His mother was xrayed and the picture showed cloudiness
> in both lungs. They treated her for lung cancer before
> discovering it was histoplasmosis.
> He said it's from chicken & bird manure spores in the air
> and breathed in by mid-westerners.
