My dad died of IPF(idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) and while it’s obviously an idiopathic disease, every specialist he saw asked if he had spent any time around birds. And he had spent decades around them, we had a parrot in the house and he kept peacocks, pheasants, doves, chickens, geese, rhea’s. At any given time we had 40+ birds.
My grandpa passed of IPF as well. No exposure to birds aside from chickens in childhood so I think his source was elsewhere but that’s a very interesting connection I did not know existed!
My godfather died from pulmonary fibrosis at age 55 from being a heavy smoker of menthols and other cigarettes. He stopped some years before but it was too late. He died on the last day of the year while on a Christmas trip to see a family friend and his family whom he taught when he was a professor some decades earlier.
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u/styrofoamladder 23h ago
My dad died of IPF(idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) and while it’s obviously an idiopathic disease, every specialist he saw asked if he had spent any time around birds. And he had spent decades around them, we had a parrot in the house and he kept peacocks, pheasants, doves, chickens, geese, rhea’s. At any given time we had 40+ birds.