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Grad Students Vie for Spot in UC Grad Slam Finals

April 16, 2019
UC Merced’s Graduate Division will host its Grad Slam competition on April 18 with graduate scholars presenting on topics ranging from Valley Fever immune response and antibiotic resistance to computer vision and mathematical methods for thermal collection. This year’s competition started in March...

Researcher Takes First Step Toward Improved Diagnosis for Valley Fever

November 28, 2018
Clinicians searching for a new way to identify Valley fever patients who will develop the disease’s worst symptoms will find hope in a new paper by UC Merced Professor Katrina Hoyer . A research project led by Hoyer and former UC Merced researcher Dan Davini, in collaboration with Madera’s Valley...

As Valley Fever Cases Spike, Experts Say Awareness is Vital

March 9, 2017
By  Robin Opsahl, Sacramento Bee ropsahl@sacbee.com In 2011, Renee Lascaux went to her doctor’s office in Tracy with a fever, cough and headache. Her doctor took an X-ray, said it was pneumonia and sent her home with antibiotics. Within a week, she was in an emergency room with...

Valley Fever Dog Vaccine Research Could help Humans Too

March 9, 2017
 By Stephanie Innes, Center for Health Journalism Collaborative Randy Ford had never heard of valley fever when he moved to Tucson from Salinas, Calif., with his dog, a reddish brown vizsla named Tyler. "A few days before Tyler died he was raising hell — chasing toys in...

How a Central Valley Prison Makes Progress Against Valley Fever

February 15, 2017
Kerry Klein, the California Report  Cocci is the nickname for Valley Fever - the infectious disease caused by a fungus that spreads tiny spores on the wind and invades the lungs. It's painful, it's deadly, and it's being noticed by the public. In 2011, an alarming rise in...

$1.7mil for Multi-Campus Valley Fever Research Initiative

February 1, 2017
By Lorena Anderson, University Communications  Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying how the Valley fever fungus, Coccidioides immitis, causes disease in its mammalian hosts, and identifying the genes involved in this...

CDC technology advances promise better valley fever detection

December 2, 2016
BY HAROLD PIERCE The Center for Health Journalism Collaborative New technology could reveal the microscopic, sometimes deadly spores that cause valley fever that currently float in the air undetected. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is developing a sensor that can...

Cocci: You're your own best valley fever expert

August 15, 2016
  By Harold Pierce, hpierce@bakersfield.com  Quon Louey had lived in Bakersfield for more than a decade when he came down with what he thought was a common cold. He broke into cold sweats and suffered from vertigo and exhaustion. When he lay down, his room would spin. Store...

Valley Fever: A Silent, Unpredictable Menace

February 19, 2016
By Jeff Garberson, The Independent  When a Livermore retiree's cough turned to pneumonia in late 2013, a standard course of antibiotics didn't help. The retiree was fit for his age, but he soon became so weak he couldn't get out of chair.  His wife too him to an...

California Prison Leaders To Move Inmates Due To Valley Fever

January 30, 2015
By Diana Aguilera, Valley Public Radio More than 2,100 California inmates will have to be moved from two Central Valley prisons because they may be susceptible of contracting valley fever. Results from skin tests conducted earlier this month showed an additional 3,050 inmates have already...

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