Can you get Hystoplasmosis from chickens?

[gkeesling]

I just started with my chickens (12 BR pullets). My wife is telling me that she has friends who know people that have gone blind because of chicken poop in the air that they were around all the time. The eye disease is called Hystoplasmosis. Has any one ever came across this, and is there any truth in what my wife is hearing?

 

[Ladyhawke1]

http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/dfbmd/disease_listing/histoplasmosis_gi.html#2

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

There's a very recent thread (I think it is recent, I just read it the other day) about a BYC member who got this.

Do a search on BYC to read about it.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=106982

found it for ya

meri