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Fever Sickens Dozens Near Earthquake Epicenter

February 24, 1994
To the woes of the victims of the Northridge earthquake, add pestilence. In the month since the Jan. 17 quake shook the San Fernando Valley and much of the rest of the Los Angeles area, at least three dozen people in this part of California have become ill from what doctors say is an unusual...

California Fights a Curious Regional Disease

November 27, 1981
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — In December 1977, a sudden wind erupted in the parched San Joaquin Valley of central California and, in one of the rare fireworks of nature that families speak about for generations, it whipped up clouds of dust that rolled like enormous opaque waves for hundreds of...

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...

A Fungus Disease Afflicts Archeologists on Coast

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...

San Joaquin Fever Regional Problem

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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