I thought I heard it was from his raising chickens, but I don’t know how accurate that is.
Chickens are a well-known carrier of the disease.
You don’t need exposure to chicken or bat manure (known as histoplasmosis vectors) to contract the disease.
Here in the Ohio Valley, it’s an extremely common infection (most cases are mild or subclinical), to the point that there are numerous false positives on chest x-rays where mediastinal lymph nodes appear pathologically enlarged, due to granulomatous inflammation (often partially calcified) caused by histo. Patients typically don’t have exposure to chickens or similar risk factors.
Dylan? Bob Dylan? Or who?
My thought exactly.
Bob Dylan, 1997.
Yes, sorry, I did mean Robert Zimmerman.
No, they didn’t bother.
Doctors don’t care that much about how you got infected; their immediate task is to save you by treating that infection. Worrying about preventing re-infection and infection of others comes later. And usually by the County Health officials, not individual doctors.
When you’re talking about something that happened twenty-three years ago, a little context would help.
I want serious nerd cred for thinking of Dylan Thomas first.
“He’s so uncool that when you say Dylan,he thinks your talking about Dylan Thomas…whoever he was.” – Simon and Garfunkle
Hah! I’d completely forgotten that line.
All I thought was an a zip code.
Almost.
“He’s so unhip when you say Dylan/He thinks you’re talking about Dylan Thomas/Whoever he was” - Simon and Garfunkel.
“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” - Dylan Thomas
Is there any chance Simon & Garfunkel were taking a swipe at ur-hipsters who put Bob on a pedestal but were unaware of Thomas?
(My bolding)
I saw that recited on stage a couple of weeks ago - by, of all people, Rob Brydon. Who’d a thunk?
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The man ain’t got no culture.
Ummm, yeah.
Here’s more on (Bob) Dylan’s 1997 case: