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Science Watch; Winds of Disease

October 2, 1979

A freak windstorm over the southern end of California's San Joaquin Valley two years ago has been implicated in an unusual sharp increase in cases of the fungus disease coccidiodomycosis last year as far as 400 miles farther north. New cases appeared in areas where the illness has been considered rare.

Read more on The New York Times website.