Woman was blinded and nearly killed simply by coming into contact with pigeon feces.
‘Please don’t feed the pigeons’ This year, in early January, a young New Brunswick woman contracted a potentially fatal condition known as Cryptococcal Meningitis. This is a serious fungal disease carried in the feces of pigeons, easily transmitted to humans simply by coming into contact with pigeon droppings. “The debilitating illness attacks the spine and …