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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...

Rains triggering allergies, dust storms spawning valley fever

August 22, 2014
August 22, 2014 @ 7:27 am PHOENIX -- This week's rains appear to be causing problems for allergy sufferers. And when it's not the rain, the dust storms could be dredging up the fungus that creates valley fever. Dr. Joseph Mittel of Banner Health said he's already seeing an...

California Inmates Sue State Over Valley Fever, Again

August 20, 2014
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A lawsuit was filed in federal court in Sacramento on July 14 against the state of California on behalf of 58 current and former inmates who contracted Valley fever while serving time in one of the state’s Central Valley prisons. The lawsuit accuses the state of...

Valley fever research moves forward at UC Merced

August 14, 2014
By Ana B. Ibarra Researchers at UC Merced are moving forward with two research projects that aim to better understand Valley fever in the San Joaquin Valley. The university’s Health Sciences Research Institute recently received approval and funding to conduct patient studies at Children...

Hundreds walk for valley fever research

August 10, 2014
By Steven Mayer, The Bakersfield Californian McClatchy-Tribune Information Services Aug. 10--Shane Hoover attended the third annual Walk for Valley Fever because he doesn't want others to suffer with the disease like he has. Aera Energy employee Christina Ramos walked at Saturday's...

The Mysterious Fungus Infecting the American Southwest

August 8, 2014
By Madeleine Thomas, The Atlantic Barragan’s extensive exposure to the soil as a farmworker puts him at a higher risk of developing valley fever, but Ramos says they had never heard of the disease before. “If we knew more about it, he probably would have been more careful,”...

The Mysterious Fungus Infecting the American Southwest

August 8, 2014
Last fall, Kirt Emery was on his motorcycle, cruising up the 99 freeway over the mountains from Santa Barbara to Bakersfield, California, when he saw the dust storm materializing in front of him. Visibility was low, but he wanted to get through it as quickly as he could, so he held his breath and...

Drought conditions, travelers can spread Valley fever into California’s northern counties

August 2, 2014
Don Hopkins, a former Davis police officer and professional ballroom dancer, is having some trouble staying on his feet. Hopkins, 67, is still physically drained from an early May trip to Mercy Hospital at Folsom, where doctors pumped him with pneumonia antibiotics for more than a week before...

A year after symposium, progress against valley fever slow

August 2, 2014
David Leon is always glad when a nurse changes his intravenous bag to amphtericin-B, a powerful antifungal medication. "It's yellow. I call it lemonade," he said during a visit Friday to a Bakersfield pulmonologist. The arrival of the yellow bag, which has been preceded by...

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