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Elliott wrote “Bleeker Street Blues” for Dylan in 1997, after the singer-songwriter was hospitalized with severe chest pains from histoplasmosis, a fungal infection.

It took until August for a doctor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to come up with a definitive diagnosis: granulomatous disease from histoplasmosis.

Health officials had detected a rise in histoplasmosis, a respiratory disease caused by spores in bird droppings.

State public health veterinarian Gary Balsamo says bats can transmit rabies, and their guano contains a fungus that can lead to a respiratory infection known as histoplasmosis.

One day, my father was diagnosed with a rare eye disease called ocular histoplasmosis that gave him a bacterial infection in his eyes.