Family wonders if volunteer's death caused by Hurricane Katrina

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Family wonders if volunteer's death caused by Hurricane Katrina

KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4872062

LEXINGTON, Ky. Donna Knight says helping Hurricane Katrina victims

in New Orleans may have led to her husband's death, but she has no

doubt he'd do it all over again.

Delbert Knight, a 69-year-old, died April fourth in Lexington,

Kentucky.

His death came less than eight months after he drove a bus and

transported evacuees from the flooded city of New Orleans in the

days after Hurricane Katrina.

Doctors said Delbert Knight had histoplasmosis, an infectious

disease of the lungs caused by a fungus that grows in soil, mainly

soil contaminated with bat or bird droppings.

They can't pinpoint whether he contracted it in New Orleans,

although doctors said it is a possibility.