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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...
November 11, 1970
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 10 When a group of 103 archeology students from Queens College in New York dug in Indian mounds in Northern California last summer, they expected to come up only with relics and a better understanding of the Maidu civilization of the 15th century. Read more on the New York...
August 19, 1955
L.A. writes that her 2 1/2-year-old grandson has a disease known as San Joaquin fever or valley fever and says that a few of her friends know much about it. This disease, medically known by the tongue-twisting name of coccidioidomycosis, is not yet (with emphasis on the 'yet')...

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