I was visiting all the places associated with the life and times of the Buddha . Unfortunately they are all in India . All 3 times I got deathly ill with bronchial infections , from breathing all the dried crap that mixes into dust and that’s what you breathe . Constantly .
I got the worst bronchial infection of my life from just breathing dust in Oklahoma. I understand how people died from dust pneumonia back during dust bowl times.
I coughed so hard with my bronchitis that I bled into my eyeballs and my vision is not as sharp as it was. Next time I go to Oklahoma I will have a dust mask with me.
I have read comments like this written by British civil service and military types 150 years ago saying the same thing albeit in a bowdlerized manner. The excrement flakes from centuries blown about by the winds during the incredible heat of the ‘dry season’ was a major reason to move women and children to various hill stations until the heat broke and the rains came.