Jun 13, 2008
Aspergillis kills gardner, from the Mirror newspaper UK
Seems it’s not just Gyr’s and our beloved birds crooking it from this nasty fungus…
A gardener died after inhaling a killer fungus from home-made compost.
The 47-year-old went to hospital with chest pains just a day after opening a bag of rotting leaves.
The unnamed welder died three days later from aspergillosis - caused by inhaling spores of the aspergillis fungus.
Dr David Waghorn, who treated the man last May at Wycombe Hospital, Bucks, warned in The Lancet medical journal that in rare cases compost “may be considered an occupational hazard for gardeners”.
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Mick
Does this mean that all gardeners will have to register with the HSE as producers of hazardous waste?
Jun 13th, 2008
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